Hallo, actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD - Not recognized by 5.2 Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Update kernel? Update Modules? What Module? Thanks for help Helmut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101217/9f40ece2/attachment-0002.html>
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:44:46 +0100 "Helmut Drodofsky" <drodofsky at internet-xs.de> wrote:> Hallo,Hi,> > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2Can't you use Xen or KVM ? That way, you,ll have an up to date OS. If not possible, updating kernel may be sufficient to make vmware work? or break. HTH, Laurent -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101217/62ade82a/attachment-0002.sig>
On Friday, December 17, 2010 08:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote:> Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2It's not recommended to run CentOS-5.2 (many serious security vulnerabilities). /Peter> Update kernel? > Update Modules? What Module? > > Thanks for help > > Helmut-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101217/328e762c/attachment-0002.sig>
On Friday, December 17, 2010 02:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote:> Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2Why? Are you wanting it as a VMware host or guest? As the kernels are basically identical in terms of the version string, the VMware kernel modules, for VMware Server or Workstation as a host, and VMware tools as a guest, should load without a recompile. I'm running a number of CentOS 5.5 guests on VMware ESX 3.5U5 with no issue. Which VMware is this, type and version, please?
On Friday, December 17, 2010 11:21:29 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote:> Vmware server 2.0.2-203138And that would be the most recent build.> With 5.3 my problem was solved.Have you tried 5.5 yet? For grins and giggles I'm going to play with it on a box I have, but it will be a little while before I have anything definitive.....
The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. So our institute had to switch to VMWare workstation that can be run as a server, too. I'm running CentOS 5.5 as the Host OS and 5.5 and RHEL6beta as guests. We didn't try out RHEL6 (waiting for CentOS6 :-) GS -- Gerhard Schneider Institute of Lightweight Design and e-Mail: gs at ilsb.tuwien.ac.at Structural Biomechanics (E317) Tel.: +43 664 60 588 3171 Vienna University of Technology / Austria Fax: +43 1 58801 31799 A-1040 Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-29 http://www.ilsb.tuwien.ac.at/~gs/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101218/1edf27a2/attachment-0002.sig>
On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote:> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement.VMware wants more people to get hooked on vSphere, so their 'suggested' VMware GSX^H^H^HServer replacement is vSphere Hypervisor, aka ESXi Free Edition. If you have suitable hardware you will get better performance with ESXi, but to get any of the more advanced functionality will require $$$ and vCenter Server. I have been looking at transitioning from VI3 (vCenter Server 2.5 and ESX 3.5) to something else; the price of vSphere 4 is simply too large to justify, and, while I have a valid license for vCenter Server Standard 4, I don't for ESX4 (it is a long story, and involves some rather precise timing of a difference in purchase and support dates for our original VI3 purchase, done in two phases). If I had a valid license for the full vSphere 4, I'm still not sure I'd run it, as the vCenter Server hardware requirements are steep. So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM before I can think about it. Well, and CentOS 6 has to be out, too. I use many of the more advanced VI3 features, including vMotion, that means I really have to be careful. I'd want to cluster the hosts and have shared storage on my three onsite EMC Clariions. I'd like to 'RAID' the shared storage between two Clariions, actually, which ESX won't do, AFAIK. So a learning curve is up ahead Q1 or Q2 2011.....
On 12/18/10 3:19 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote:> > The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for > longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement.Do you need something that the 1.x series won't do? If something works and serves your purpose it doesn't matter if it is discontinued or not.> So our institute had to switch to VMWare workstation that can be run as > a server, too. I'm running CentOS 5.5 as the Host OS and 5.5 and > RHEL6beta as guests. We didn't try out RHEL6 (waiting for CentOS6 :-)The other option is to run ESXi and move anything you were running on the host to a guest. You'll get better performance that way but you need to run the converter tool on some other machine to get the images copied in. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Have you considered looking into redhat enterprise virtualization? If you are interested I can put you in touch with a redhat rhev representative? Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:>On Saturday, December 18, 2010 04:19:25 am Gerhard Schneider wrote: >> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for >> longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement. > >VMware wants more people to get hooked on vSphere, so their 'suggested' VMware GSX^H^H^HServer replacement is vSphere Hypervisor, aka ESXi Free Edition. If you have suitable hardware you will get better performance with ESXi, but to get any of the more advanced functionality will require $$$ and vCenter Server. > >I have been looking at transitioning from VI3 (vCenter Server 2.5 and ESX 3.5) to something else; the price of vSphere 4 is simply too large to justify, and, while I have a valid license for vCenter Server Standard 4, I don't for ESX4 (it is a long story, and involves some rather precise timing of a difference in purchase and support dates for our original VI3 purchase, done in two phases). If I had a valid license for the full vSphere 4, I'm still not sure I'd run it, as the vCenter Server hardware requirements are steep. > >So I'm very seriously considering transitioning from VI3 to CentOS 6 KVM; for my situation it might be doable, but I have a lot to learn about KVM before I can think about it. Well, and CentOS 6 has to be out, too. I use many of the more advanced VI3 features, including vMotion, that means I really have to be careful. I'd want to cluster the hosts and have shared storage on my three onsite EMC Clariions. I'd like to 'RAID' the shared storage between two Clariions, actually, which ESX won't do, AFAIK. So a learning curve is up ahead Q1 or Q2 2011..... >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos