I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared to ESXi? The version numbers between the rhel virtio-win drivers and the publicly available ones are significantly different, and it looks like you need a rhel sub for theirs. Anyone know the state of the ones on the fedora repo? Has kvm made snapshots (without lvm) as slick as vmware yet? Thanks for the suggestions, jlc
On 04/13/12 8:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:> I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless > console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages > except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be > wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What > are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared > to ESXi?I would only use KVM for a predominately Linux guest workload. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
Joseph L. Casale writes:> I might be needing to utilize one of the provided virtualization packages either in a headless > console only setup of CentOS or on my desktop. I havent used anything but ESXi in ages > except virtualbox which I did not like at all. Most of the guests which I will need to run will be > wnidows based and last I looked at this a few years ago, windows guests ran pathetic. What > are some more current opinions on how windows guests run on the available packages compared > to ESXi? > > The version numbers between the rhel virtio-win drivers and the publicly available ones are > significantly different, and it looks like you need a rhel sub for theirs. Anyone know the state > of the ones on the fedora repo?I've been using those drivers from Fedora for quite a while now for M$ guests, they work fine for what I need.> > Has kvm made snapshots (without lvm) as slick as vmware yet?Nope, you will have to use lvm; a small price to pay to be "free" ;-) -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro