2011/3/31 David Sommerseth :
> On 29/03/11 21:13, Kenni Lund wrote:
>> The main problem is Windows guests, which easily chokes on hardware
>> changes (forced reactivation of Windows or unbootable with BSOD). Each
>> qemu-kvm version will behave differently, so moving from one major
>> qemu-kvm vers
On 29/03/11 21:13, Kenni Lund wrote:
> Den 29/03/2011 15.41 skrev "David Sommerseth" :
[...snip...]
Thanks a lot for good information!
> The main problem is Windows guests, which easily chokes on hardware
> changes (forced reactivation of Windows or unbootable with BSOD). Each
> qemu-kvm version
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:59:09AM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:41:04AM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
>>> First. With Xen I was never able to start more than 30 guests at one time
>>> with any success; the 31st guest alway
Den 29/03/2011 15.41 skrev "David Sommerseth" :
> This makes me wondering how well it would go to migrate from SL6 to CentOS
> 6, if all KVM guests are on dedicated/separate LVM volumes and that you
> take a backup of /etc/libvirt. So when CentOS6 is released, scratch SL6
> and install CentOS6, pu
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, David Sommerseth
wrote:
> On 27/03/11 11:57, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>>
>> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
>> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>>
>> KVM would be a natural way to go, I s
On 27/03/11 11:57, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>
> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>
> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
> will not be out in time
Please also consider OpenNode - http://opennode.activesys.org - a CentOS based
KVM full virtualization + OpenVZ linux containers solution. Supports VM
templating and live migration, etc - with easy bare metal setup.
Cheers,
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On 3/27/2011 3:07 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:
>
> It's interesting that nobody so far mentioned openVZ
I wouldn't use it since being bitten by its lack of swap support.
I run a couple of web sites on a fairly "heavy" web stack which loads up
a bunch of dependencies that don't actually end up being use
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:41:04AM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
First. With Xen I was never able to start more than 30 guests at one time
with any success; the 31st guest always failed to boot or crashed during
booting, no matter which guest I chose a
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:41:04AM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> The slightly longer story...
>
> First. With Xen I was never able to start more than 30 guests at one time
> with any success; the 31st guest always failed to boot or crashed during
> booting, no matter which guest I chose as t
On 03/27/2011 09:00 AM, Jerry Franz wrote:
>
> On 03/27/2011 02:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> > Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>> >
>> > Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
>> > (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>> >
>> > KVM would be a natural way
David Brian Chait wrote:
I understand that vmware has much stronger marketing machine, however that
does not mean that their technology is somehow better. Their offer is a
reasonable choice for many scenarios in IT, mass web hosting is
unfortunately not one of them. As any competent admin will te
> I understand that vmware has much stronger marketing machine, however that
> does not mean that their technology is somehow better. Their offer is a
> reasonable choice for many scenarios in IT, mass web hosting is
> unfortunately not one of them. As any competent admin will tell you, use
> the
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:26:38 +0300
Eero Volotinen wrote:
> > The same is true for solutions like vmware. Just google for all the
> > "blue pill" talks. It's a theoretical risk that is small enough to be
> > irrelevant.
>
> WebServers running buggy php software provides (easy) way to execute
> lo
>> > Well.. eh. as you might know that virtuozzo/openvz does not provide
>> > kernel isolation. Mainly this means than one kernel exploit can provide
>> > full access to all openvz/virtuozzo containers.
>> >
>
> The same is true for solutions like vmware. Just google for all the "blue
> pill" talks
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:10:45 +0200
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Eero Volotinen
> wrote:
> >> I've deployed Virtuozzo for a large web hosting company and found it
> >> superior to vmware in about every aspect that mattered in a web hosting
> >> environment.
> >
> > Well.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>> I've deployed Virtuozzo for a large web hosting company and found it
>> superior to vmware in about every aspect that mattered in a web hosting
>> environment.
>
> Well.. eh. as you might know that virtuozzo/openvz does not provide kernel
> I've deployed Virtuozzo for a large web hosting company and found it
> superior to vmware in about every aspect that mattered in a web hosting
> environment.
Well.. eh. as you might know that virtuozzo/openvz does not provide kernel
isolation. Mainly this means than one kernel exploit can provid
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:21:45 -0700
David Brian Chait wrote:
> The two things that always comes to mind when I am considering a
> virtualization solution is extent of tool set/support, and the general
> acceptance of the technology. For those two reasons I nearly always
> implement VMware, it has
> It's interesting that nobody so far mentioned openVZ or its commercial
> version, Virtuozzo. It's different than all major virtualization players
> (it's OS level virtualization, not hw level), but that makes it the only
> viable option for things like mass web hosting solutions.
> Try it out an
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:42:36 -0500
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On 3/27/11 4:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> > Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>> >
>> > Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
>> > (ns, ma
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:42:36 -0500
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 3/27/11 4:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> > Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
> >
> > Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
> > (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
It's interesting that nobody so far me
> You can boot ESXi from a
>small CF card, as once its booted, it doesn't touch the boot device at all.
Yes it does, there are cron jobs for config backups etc.
How does it remember config changes in a non-stateless deployment?
~ # cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
#syntax : minute hour day mo
On 03/27/11 2:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
one downside to ESXi, it does not support any sort of software raid.
Normally ESX is used with a SAN, which provides all
On 03/27/2011 07:10 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> How did you get the PXE working?
> I already had a PXE server for physical hosts, so I just did a
> virt-install with the --pxe switch, and it worked first time. The MAC
> address was pre-defined an
> Biggest problem in free esxi is that it lacks backup vcb api, so full
> image backups are almost impossible under free esxi host ..
Not true at all, I use the ghettovcb script in the console and it works fine.
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On 3/27/11 4:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>
> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>
> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
> will not be out in time for
> KVM was a dog in testing under CentOS and RHEL 5.x. The bridged
>networking has *NO* network configuration tool that understands
>how to set it up, you have to do it manually, and that's a deficit I've
>submitted upstream as an RFE. It may work well with CentOS and
>RHEL 6, i've not had a chance
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> How did you get the PXE working?
I already had a PXE server for physical hosts, so I just did a
virt-install with the --pxe switch, and it worked first time. The MAC
address was pre-defined and known to the DHCP server. I installed both
Linux and
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>
>> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
>> will not be out in time for me - I guess KVM would be more mature in
>> CentOS 6.
>
> I have been using Xen with much su
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
> will not be out in time for me - I guess KVM would be more mature in
> CentOS 6.
I have been using Xen with much success for several years, now with two
CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Dom0's,
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2011/3/27 Drew :
>>> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
>>> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
>>>
>>> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
>>>
>>> I woul
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Drew wrote:
>> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
>> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
>>
>> I would need a tutorial about that... For
2011/3/27 Drew :
>> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
>> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
>>
>> I would need a tutorial about that... For example, does that run witho
> Any experience with the free "VMware vSphere Hypervisor"?. (It was
> formerly known as "VMware ESXi Single Server" or "free ESXi".)
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.html
>
> I would need a tutorial about that... For example, does that run without
> a host OS? Can it
On 03/27/2011 02:57 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>
> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>
> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
> will not be out in time
On 03/27/11 11:57, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
>
> Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
> (ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
>
> KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
> will not be out in time for
Some may be bored with the subject - sorry...
Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2"
(ns, mail, web servers, etc.).
KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6
will not be out in time for me - I guess KVM would be more mature in
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