May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Stefano Canepa
Hi all, I'm new t Scientific Linux but not to Linux, I'm trying SL because I'm looking for a RHEL 6 free distribution and at CentOS they are still working. I tried to install using SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso into a VirtualBox virtual machine. I verified the ISO using sha256

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 08:11 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote: Hi all, I'm new t Scientific Linux but not to Linux, I'm trying SL because I'm looking for a RHEL 6 free distribution and at CentOS they are still working. I tried to install using SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso into a VirtualBox v

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Phil Schaffner
Stefano Canepa wrote on 04/13/2011 11:11 AM: ... I tried to install using SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso into a VirtualBox virtual machine. I verified the ISO using sha256sum and also inside installer but it stops installing MAKEDEV claiming it is corrupted on DVD. I have done multip

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but "riddled with bugs" seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. Phil Not "exaggerated". Years of pain and experience. Wait until you get your job threatened over it. Fortunate

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: >> >> Can't say it is perfect, but "riddled with bugs" seems a bit exaggerated. >>  My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. >> >> Phil >> > Not "exaggerated".  Years of pa

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/13/2011 07:35 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but "riddled with bugs" seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. Ph

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > I tried VB 4.0.x, but it was so much slower that 3.2.12 with my XP > guest that I ripped it back off and replaced it with 3.2.12.  I > will be trying KVM on a new server to see how it fares. You need to go *straight* to VMWare. D

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-14 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not stop at KVM. Go right to commercial grade support, and install an ESX server if you can. Why should the better choice be ESX than KVM for somebody who is familiar with Linux? Ser

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-14 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not stop >> at KVM. Go right to commercial grade support, and install an ESX >> server if you can. > > Why should the better cho

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-14 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 04/14/2011 03:08 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not stop at KVM. Go right to commercial grade support, and install an ESX server if you

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-14 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not stop >> at KVM. Go right to commercial grade support, and install an ESX >> server if you can. > > Why should the better cho

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-14 Thread Alain Péan
Le 15/04/2011 04:29, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écrit : I've heard good things about KVM performance, but didn't see it in RHEL/CentOS/SL 5.x. I'll be very intersted to see the results of the Debian testing I'm doing in the near future. Hi Nico, Just for curiosity, what do you consider as KVM soluti

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-15 Thread Artem Trunov
Hi, Todd KVM unders SL5/6 works quite nice for windows guests, including terminal session into them. Virt-manager console is noticeably slow, and has at least one annoying bug (when win7 guest prompts you to chose whether your network is home or work or internet, virt-manager freezes ad needs to b

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-15 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 04/14/2011 04:41 PM, jdow wrote: On 2011/04/13 13:08, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: On 04/13/2011 12:38 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Can't say it is perfect, but "riddled with bugs" seems a bit exaggerated. My overall experiences with VB have been very positive. Phil Not "exaggerated". Ye

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-16 Thread Vaclav Mocek
On 04/15/2011 03:29 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not stop at KVM. Go right to commercial grade support, and install an ESX server if

Re: May be a bug in SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Everything-DVD1.iso

2011-04-16 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote: > On 04/15/2011 03:29 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Vaclav Mocek  wrote: >>> >>> On 04/14/2011 05:24 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: You need to go *straight* to VMWare. Do not stop at Xen, do not sto