Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-16 Thread David McGuffey
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 23:32 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. What did these fail to do? Sorry it has taken so long to get back. After screwing around for weeks

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-16 Thread David McGuffey
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 10:18 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: I selected one virtual CPU for the XP load...primarily because I want to run a couple more VMs and the guidance was to allocate one real CPU per VM. My understanding is that Win XP will perform a fundamentally different install

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
David McGuffey wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 23:32 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: David McGuffey wrote: I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. What did these fail to do? Sorry it has taken so long to get back. After screwing

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
I selected one virtual CPU for the XP load...primarily because I want to run a couple more VMs and the guidance was to allocate one real CPU per VM. My understanding is that Win XP will perform a fundamentally different install depending on whether it detects 1 or many CPU. So if you ever plan

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen, kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm. I'm very surprised at how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM. # FUTURE OF KVM David, I'm currently doing exactly the same (researching and comparing various

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-08 Thread David McGuffey
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 14:50 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen, kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm. I'm very surprised at how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM. # FUTURE OF KVM David, I'm currently

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-07 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Well, it turns out that qemu is required and kvm-qemu-img was the source of the problem. Removing this and installing qemu instead fixed the problem. Actually I did the other way round: yum remove qemu (which is in the extras repo) yum install -x qemu kvm (excluding qemu and thus

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-07 Thread David McGuffey
I've been doing a lot of research on virtualization (VMWare, EXSi, xen, kvm, VirtualBox, etc.) and ended up choosing kvm. I'm very surprised at how quick I was able to bring up a WinXP VM. I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. So

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-07 Thread David McGuffey
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 16:21 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: On Fri, November 6, 2009 13:50, James B. Byrne wrote: Evidently, one gets XEN. I will get kvm from extras and go about installing it manually. # grep 'vmx' /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64

2009-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
David McGuffey wrote: I tried VMWare's EXSi 4.0 on bare metal, and failed. Then I tried VirtualBox on CentOS 5.3 and failed. What did these fail to do? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org