Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support

2008-07-11 Thread David G. Mackay
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:31 -0700, nate wrote: > No it requires changes to the kernel itself, changes which I don't think Red > Hat will introduce in a minor release as their current VM stuff is Xen based > which has it's own paravirtualization support in the existing kernel(pre > VMI). I read tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Ruslan Sivak wrote: > Does it just require a kernel recompile? Is there maybe one available > somewhere? No it requires changes to the kernel itself, changes which I don't think Red Hat will introduce in a minor release as their current VM stuff is Xen based which has it's own paravirtualization

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support

2008-07-10 Thread Ruslan Sivak
nate wrote: Ruslan Sivak wrote: I'm using VMWare Server 2 RC1 to on top of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 running a CentOS 5.2 i386 guest. I have enabled VMI in VMware, so I guess it won't let me install if VMI wasn't available in the kernel? How do I know whether VMI is supported/enabled and what perfo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support

2008-07-10 Thread nate
Ruslan Sivak wrote: > I'm using VMWare Server 2 RC1 to on top of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 running a > CentOS 5.2 i386 guest. I have enabled VMI in VMware, so I guess it > won't let me install if VMI wasn't available in the kernel? How do I > know whether VMI is supported/enabled and what performance ben

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 VMI support

2008-07-10 Thread Ruslan Sivak
I'm using VMWare Server 2 RC1 to on top of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 running a CentOS 5.2 i386 guest. I have enabled VMI in VMware, so I guess it won't let me install if VMI wasn't available in the kernel? How do I know whether VMI is supported/enabled and what performance benefits can I expect from