Greetings,
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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> I ran (in my previous job) four Windows 2008 server VMs, two Windows XP
> VMs, and one Windows 7 VM on KVM with CentOS-5.x as the base OS. I did
> not have any major issues .. but I did not try to do things like USB
> connectio
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
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> > > Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages
> > > and aren't concerned about running your images on other types of
> > > hosts, try KVM first.
> > >
>
> KVM, in my experience, gives a poorer graphic performance, so
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
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> On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox
> > wrote:
> >> My objective is to have Window run in a window on my desktop. I
> >> don't w
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> On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox
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> >> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my
> >> desktop
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On 02/19/2014 03:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox
> wrote:
>> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my
>> desktop.
>>
>> As this will likely be a short-term thing, and since I have never
>> u
On 19/02/2014 23:09, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 02/19/2014 05:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
that limit was rescinded in August.ESXI
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 01:11:04AM +, Andrew Holway wrote:
> > I wasted 2 weeks trying to get Solaris 10 u11 running stably on KVM with
> > CentOS 6.5. installed and ran perfectly on my first try with esxi 5.5.
>
> Same story with FreeBSD 9.1 but I found upgrading the kernel to
> something sl
> I wasted 2 weeks trying to get Solaris 10 u11 running stably on KVM with
> CentOS 6.5. installed and ran perfectly on my first try with esxi 5.5.
Same story with FreeBSD 9.1 but I found upgrading the kernel to
something slightly less dinosauristic as the EL kernel alleviated the
problem.
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 05:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John R Pierce
> wrote:
> >> On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>> When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
> >> that limit
On 2/19/2014 3:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Mismatch in the guest disk drivers and virtualized hardware??
probably something like that.but, KVM wouldn't even boot the ISO in
text mode if I enabled more than 1 vCPU.
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 3:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Figures... I think I built those in June or so. Anyway, while the
>> VMware console client is somewhat slicker I don't see any functional
>> reason to change back - KVM runs them just the same.
>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
>>> that limit was rescinded in August.ESXI 5.5 is now free for
>>> unlimited memory. about the only restriction is max 8 CPU cores per VM.
>>>
>> Figures... I think
On 2/19/2014 3:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Figures... I think I built those in June or so. Anyway, while the
> VMware console client is somewhat slicker I don't see any functional
> reason to change back - KVM runs them just the same.
I wasted 2 weeks trying to get Solaris 10 u11 running stably
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
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>> On 2/19/2014 12:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get the
>>> impression that there are special kernel modules that are requi
On 02/19/2014 05:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
>> that limit was rescinded in August.ESXI 5.5 is now free for
>> unlimited me
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
>
> that limit was rescinded in August.ESXI 5.5 is now free for
> unlimited memory. about the only restriction is max 8 CPU c
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 12:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get the
>> impression that there are special kernel modules that are required for
>> virtualbox, but if I install dkms then that will b
On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
that limit was rescinded in August.ESXI 5.5 is now free for
unlimited memory. about the only restriction is max 8 CPU cores per VM.
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john r pierce
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 12:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages and
>> aren't concerned about running your images on other types of hosts,
>> try KVM first.
>
> KVM is great for virtualizing linu
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:54:05 -0800
Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> > VBox is darn simple, and works quite well.
> There is a nice CentOS wiki article :
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Virtualization/VirtualBox
Gosh, that was slick. Now I have virtual
On 2/19/2014 12:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Virtualbox will work, but if you want to stick to stock packages and
> aren't concerned about running your images on other types of hosts,
> try KVM first.
KVM is great for virtualizing linux systems, but I found it pretty hard
to work with for virtual
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/19/2014 12:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>> I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get the
>> impression that there are special kernel modules that are required for
>> virtualbox, but if I install dkms then that will be
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my desktop.
>
> As this will likely be a short-term thing, and since I have never used
> Windows, I would like to do this in the most painless way possible. A method
> that requires me
On 2/19/2014 12:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> I was looking at virtualbox. Is this the best approach? I get the
> impression that there are special kernel modules that are required for
> virtualbox, but if I install dkms then that will be automatically handled for
> me whenever there is a kernel u
Virtualbox works very well for such situations as you describe. I've done
the same thing using it.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my desktop.
>
> As this will likely be a short-term thing, and since I have never used
I may have a need to run some version of Windows (XP?) on my desktop.
As this will likely be a short-term thing, and since I have never used Windows,
I would like to do this in the most painless way possible. A method that
requires me to make the least changes to my Centos computer would be ni
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