Nothing necessarily in particular. Just like to keep my options open, in
case I decide that I'd like to run some software on the directly on the
host along side of VMware-server. My host OS is CentOS, so packages are
readily available for it.
One thing I do run is ntp server. I believe VMware recommends this for
ESXi as well.
ESXi doesn't appear to like all of my hardware. I have one host with a
USB ethernet dongle that is not used by the host, but is bridged to a
guest. I had to get the driver for the device from the EPEL repo. Works
fine with VMware Server on CentOS, but I doubt getting it to work with
ESXi would have been so easy, if even possible. I tried loading ESXi on
one of my test hosts, and it didn't like the on board ethernet at all. I
pretty much gave up on ESXi at that point, at least until I get some
juicier hardware.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Patrick Ring wrote:
I'm curious to know what you need to control that can't be done on ESXi?
-Patrick Ring
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net>
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com <qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com>
Sent: Wed Aug 04 20:45:46 2010
Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT on Xen? (I hope not)
I've been running VMware Server.
ESXi is a bit more limited hardware wise than I'd like.
I also like the idea of being able to do what I want with the host
software. So far though, the only thing I really run directly on the
host is ntpd (which the guests use to sync time).
I've thought about alternatives, but nothing has seemed very mature.
I'll probably give KVM a go after CentOS6 is out for a while.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Patrick Ring wrote:
> I've been running QMT successfully on ESXi for about 4 years. No
problems.
>
> I've thought about (open source) Xen, but never made the move.
> -Patrick Ring
> --------------------------
> Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hughes <sonicscott9...@gmail.com>
> To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
<qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com>
> Sent: Wed Aug 04 20:32:23 2010
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on Xen? (I hope not)
>
> I just started playing with the free version of ESXi. Seems really good.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 7:21 PM, "Michael Colvin" <mcol...@norcalisp.com>
wrote:
>
> > I'm running on VMWare ESXi, but was looking to maybe switch up. Xen
> was on
> > my list of possibles, along with Proxmox. (proxmox.com) I was
leaning
> > towards Xen, but, perhaps I shouldn't now? :-)
> >
> > VMWare's working great, just looking for something a little more
budget
> > friendly. :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael J. Colvin
> > NorCal Internet Services
> > www.norcalisp.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Eric Shubert [mailto:e...@shubes.net]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:40 PM
> >> To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
> >> Subject: [qmailtoaster] QMT on Xen? (I hope not)
> >>
> >> Is anyone running QMT on Xen?
> >> I just noticed that RHEL6 will not contain Xen, in favor of KVM.
> >> --
> >> -Eric 'shubes'
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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