CentOS - Aug 2007 - CentOS things to mod for VMware server

I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server.

Anything I should consider before doing so?

(e.g. stuff to disable, kernel tweaks, etc)

On 8/1/07, Rogelio Bastardo <scubacuda at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server.
> Anything I should consider before doing so?
See http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189

There's some good info in there.
Beyond that, disable/remove stuff you're not using. Keep your virtual
machine files on a separate partition (mounted with noatime) and if
you're using raid, make sure you lay out the filesystem properly for
block alignment. This will REALLY give you a good speed boost for
vmware.

You can change some memory options in /etc/sysctl.conf, but these are
more customized so you'll have to play around with them or google a
bit.

-- 
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George Orwell

Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I'd like to make a CentOS-based VMware server.
>
> Anything I should consider before doing so?
>
> (e.g. stuff to disable, kernel tweaks, etc)
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XFS allegedly handles large files better than ext3/reiserfs.

and we all know that vmx files can be  . . . . big!

Has anyone run any benchmarks on xfs / ext3 / reiserfs to establish 
which is better suited for holding virtual machines?

Yiorgos