Re: [CentOS-virt] Virtualisation, guests cached memory and density

2013-02-08 Thread James Hogarth
> > I see the ability to run "top" as a normal user on a KVM host and see what > the guests are up to as a big advantage. Sure, one can run xentop on Xen, > but only if you have root access. > If you have at least read only access to libvirt virt-top is nice to get more detail on guest stats... H

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-17 Thread James Hogarth
Thanks for the clarification. On 17 Aug 2010 17:57, "Pasi Kärkkäinen" wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:35:24AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: >> > >> > Uh.. are you mixing Xen and KVM now? >> > >> > I think KVM *always* requires the kernel mo

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-17 Thread James Hogarth
> > Uh.. are you mixing Xen and KVM now? > > I think KVM *always* requires the kernel module, aka CPU support for hardware > virtualization. > > -- Pasi > You might be right... having trouble googling something... but I thought that kvm without -enable-kvm (or with -no-kvm) and with -kernel, -app

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread James Hogarth
On 16 August 2010 16:22, Tom Bishop wrote: > > "I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from > vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed." > > > That would be good I have read several things but would be nice to see. > I'm not sure how much vmware server

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread James Hogarth
On 16 August 2010 15:55, Tom Bishop wrote: > Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway ;) > I did come across this post in fedora forum that got me to think it might > work > > > Currently, I have VMware Server 2.0 and KVM on the same headless machine > with 4G m

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread James Hogarth
On 16 August 2010 15:11, Danilo Nascimento wrote: > I think that you can use the qemu without the kvm / kvm-(intel|amd) module. > But i hardly think that VMware will still running with the KVM module loaded > Only paravirtualised guests (so compatible linux) and not fully virtualised... that requ