Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-04 Thread David Sommerseth
On 03/03/11 00:41, Ross Walker wrote: [...snip...] > > This works with Xen or KVM, though the management and > compartmentalization of Xen helps. > > Does CentOS support the shared memory pages, memory dedup, in Xen? That > would allow for a lot more Linux VMs. I don't think the KSM support has b

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 06:55:56 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I thought a bit about that when posting earlier. I still disagree WRT > dual-booting. And no, virtualization doesn't need twice the hardware by > a long shot (aggregated load averaging, shared componentry, and a host > of other savin

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:44 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: > On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:24:14 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I think I addressed that reality. > > Part of it, yes. > > > For some needs, you need to be on > > bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or > >

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:44:58 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > So there are actually apps that work in Linux that aren't available for > OS X? Yep. For one example, there are the LinuxDSP plugins. There are others. > I'm kind of surprised that a local disk controller would be better in > that

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:24:14 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I think I addressed that reality. Part of it, yes. > For some needs, you need to be on > bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or > multiple systems (if you're doing professional music editing, presumabl

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/2011 3:17 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, March 03, 2011 03:55:48 pm Les Mikesell wrote: >> But you can usually run the one that is picky as the host OS and the >> other(s) virtualized. > > You really don't know what you're talking about in this case, Les. The > specific machine that

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:04:42 pm Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Although it's not there yet, I'm sure we'll get there sooner than >> expected > > To be fair to VMware Fusion on OS X, the graphics acceleration is > fantastic, running Windows 7 in fu

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:37 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote: > On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted > > host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/guest as > > relevant), and mappings via CI

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:04:42 pm Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Although it's not there yet, I'm sure we'll get there sooner than expected To be fair to VMware Fusion on OS X, the graphics acceleration is fantastic, running Windows 7 in full Aero mode with no problems. But it still can't keep accu

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 03:55:48 pm Les Mikesell wrote: > But you can usually run the one that is picky as the host OS and the > other(s) virtualized. You really don't know what you're talking about in this case, Les. The specific machine that I'm talking about needs access to Harrison Mi

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:45 PM, wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >>> Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted >>> host/guests.  You get native filesystem support (under the host/ >>>

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/2011 2:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted >> host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/guest as >> relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Samba and/or NFS/NIS+. >> >> The win is still virtualization. > > There are sit

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 3, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted >> host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/ >> guest as >> relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Sam

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted > host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/guest as > relevant), and mappings via CIFS/Samba and/or NFS/NIS+. > > The win is still virtualization.

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 11:38 Thu 03 Mar, Always Learning (cen...@g7.u22.net) wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which > > forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for > > simultaneous access

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/03/11 4:10 AM, Phil Savoie wrote: > When booting a system with multiple operating systems, it is true that > only one operating system may be in use at one time, however, those > other operating systems are installed on the disk in partitions. These > partitions may be mounted like any othe

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Stephen Harris
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 07:10:26AM -0500, Phil Savoie wrote: > On 03/03/2011 06:43 AM, Kevin K wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> two operating systems. Surely that constitutes simultaneous access to > >> storage? > > > > If you are tri-booting, how are you access

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Phil Savoie
On 03/03/2011 06:43 AM, Kevin K wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos >> (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy)

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Kevin K wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> >> On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >>> It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which >>> forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for >>> simultaneou

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 06:43 -0500, Kevin K wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > > My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos > > (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy) allows me > > in Linux to access and change the file sp

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Kevin K
On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > >> It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which >> forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for >> simultaneous access to features (a

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which > forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for > simultaneous access to features (and storage) of both, and generally > necessitates use of some

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:29 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability > and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup > virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB > RAM, and use the SAN's storage to see if

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 21:35 Wed 02 Mar, Rudi Ahlers (r...@softdux.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:56 PM, compdoc wrote: > >>Yes, I know that I could have used KVM, VMWare > >>or VirtualBox, but I wanted to use what's included already. <...> > What I'm getting at: > > Can, or will virtualization replace dua

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability > and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup > virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB > RAM, and use the SAN's storage to see if it co

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
> > Interesting, could you shed a light on what exact XML is needed ? http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsVideo You need to set the video type to qxl and the graphical type to spice ... then set the appropriate attributes on the eleme

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, James Hogarth wrote: >> You need qemu-spice for using SPICE, which does not ship with RHEL5 or >> RHEL6. On top of that, SPICE is only supported by Red Hat for RHEV, not >> libvirt. That may change in the future, ... but when, nobody knows ;-) > > qemu-kvm and libvirt in RHEL6

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
>> KVM is included, you just have to select it. There is a loyal following of >> Xen in the community, but I use KVM for my servers. I'm often called 'dumb' >> for even talking about KVM, but I like it. (and I'm not saying, nor have I >> ever said, that KVM is better than Xen) > > Yes, I know KVM i

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread David Sommerseth
On 02/03/11 21:12, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> Other than that, SPICE is probably the future [1] on Linux. That should >> slowly begin to be useful in RHEL5, RHEL6 and Fedora 14, if I'm not much >> mistaken. Not sure how much is implemented in RHEL5/CentO

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread James Hogarth
> You need qemu-spice for using SPICE, which does not ship with RHEL5 or > RHEL6. On top of that, SPICE is only supported by Red Hat for RHEV, not > libvirt. That may change in the future, ... but when, nobody knows ;-) > > -- No you don't Dag. qemu-kvm and libvirt in RHEL6 already supports SPICE

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread compdoc
> Yes, I know KVM is included, but at this stage XEN is the default and >when you use the Virtual Machine Manager, it uses XEN. Select Server Gui only, when it's up, use yum to install everything else. I think yum is a better way to install than the OS installer. >No, I'm not using VNC. My appro

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread compdoc
>You need qemu-spice for using SPICE, which does not ship with RHEL5 or >RHEL6. On top of that, SPICE is only supported by Red Hat for RHEV, not >libvirt. That may change in the future, ... but when, nobody knows ;-) Well that's certainly disappointing. Any alternatives to spice for centos? I know

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/2/2011 2:06 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> Differently put, we already do this with servers. One big&fast Quad >>> XEON can run many client's Virtual Machines, very easily. And many of >>> those Virtual Machines host a few hundred websites, thus saving a lot >>> on rack space, electricity, e

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, David Sommerseth wrote: > Other than that, SPICE is probably the future [1] on Linux. That should > slowly begin to be useful in RHEL5, RHEL6 and Fedora 14, if I'm not much > mistaken. Not sure how much is implemented in RHEL5/CentOS5 though. > However, for SPICE to work, you

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/2/2011 1:35 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> Differently put, we already do this with servers. One big&  fast Quad >> XEON can run many client's Virtual Machines, very easily. And many of >> those Virtual Machines host a few hundred websites,

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/2/2011 1:35 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Differently put, we already do this with servers. One big& fast Quad > XEON can run many client's Virtual Machines, very easily. And many of > those Virtual Machines host a few hundred websites, thus saving a lot > on rack space, electricity, etc, etc.

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread aurfalien
On Mar 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I thought, just for the fun of it, let's install Windows 2008 Small > Business Server. > Interestingly, using the same Virtual Machine Manager, the > installation wasn't as slow as with CentOS. It's almost asif it's more > optimized for Windows? I

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread David Sommerseth
On 02/03/11 19:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/2/2011 11:29 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> So, I installed CentOS + KDE, chose the Virtualization package and >> used Virtual Machine Manager to setup another CentOS VM inside CentOS >> (I only have a CentOS ISO on this SAN, since we don't use Debian / >

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:56 PM, compdoc wrote: >>Yes, I know that I could have used KVM, VMWare >>or VirtualBox, but I wanted to use what's included already. > > KVM is included, you just have to select it. There is a loyal following of > Xen in the community, but I use KVM for my servers. I'm oft

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability > and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup > virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB > RAM [...] > > So, I installed CentOS + KDE, chose the

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/2/2011 11:29 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > So, I installed CentOS + KDE, chose the Virtualization package and > used Virtual Machine Manager to setup another CentOS VM inside CentOS > (I only have a CentOS ISO on this SAN, since we don't use Debian / > Slackware / FC / Ubuntu / etc). The installa

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread compdoc
>Yes, I know that I could have used KVM, VMWare >or VirtualBox, but I wanted to use what's included already. KVM is included, you just have to select it. There is a loyal following of Xen in the community, but I use KVM for my servers. I'm often called 'dumb' for even talking about KVM, but I like

[CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-02 Thread Rudi Ahlers
I am busy setting up some XEN servers on a SAN for high availability and Cloud Computing, and thought it could be cool to setup virtualization on a CentOS 5.5 Desktop, running on a Core i3 + 4GB RAM, and use the SAN's storage to see if it could actually be worth my while to replicate a Cloud Comput