similar to: Migration from Windows VMs from VMWare server to Xen

Hi everyone, I''m trying to convert some Xen HVM images to run on VMware ESX, unsuccessfully thus far. I believe the problem is that ESX by default wants the VMs to use SCSI virtual disks, but my HVM VMs are configured to use IDE virtual disks. If you have any experience with this sort of thing, please get in touch. Thanks! Diwaker -- http://floatingsun.net/

I'm new to NUT, but didn't find a clear answer to this either in the recent "ordered shutdown" thread or in Google: How to shut down VMWare guest virtual machines earlier than the host machine they run on? (For example, if everything normally shuts down at 5% UPS battery, then the VMs should shut down at 10%.) I also read upssched.txt but I can't tell from the early

Hi All, I was hoping to run a Windows 2003 server in production on Centos 5.2 however the performance isn't very good. The host is Centos 5.2 64 bit. I did some file transfers and I'm seeing about 12Mb/s on a Windows 2003 VM and about 8Mb/s on a Windows 2003 32 bit VM. Numbers are measured using the builtin Windows 2003 server networking monitor (Press Ctrl Alt Del in Windows and go

Hello, In my testing environment I have two VMs on ESXi 5.0. VM A = dhcp/tftp/PXE/http server, running CentOS 6.2. Syslinux 4.04 with the included gpxelinux.0. VM B = PXE boot client. If I run CentOS 6.2 also on the VM B, I can easily transfer 50+ MB/sec over http between the VMs (wget, links). Now, if I PXE boot gpxelinux.0 on the VM B, and start to download bigger initrd image over http the

Hi, I''m curious about how you guys deal with big virtualization installations. To this date we only dealt with a small number of VM''s (~10)on not too big hardware (2xquad xeons+16GB ram). As I''m the "storage guy" I find it quite convenient to present to the dom0s one LUN per VM that makes live migration possible but without the cluster file system or cLVM

Is there any known issues when trying to run CentOS (x86 or x64) on a fresh install of vmware 4.1? Details as to why I am asking are here in the CentOS forums: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=DESC&topic_id=28521&forum=39 Thanks! -Drew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello - I have installed the VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm package on a CentOS 5.1 system. I then ran the vmware-config.pl program. I chose mostly default answer, except that I did not choose the NAT option; I saw no errors. I used the VMware Server Console to create a Red Hat Linux VM. I also copied an externally created VM into the '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/'

Good m/d/n guys, wanted to put idea through you before trying to implement this. So afaik LVM snapshots basically don't take any "real" space on hard drives. I'm using KVM virtualization on my hosts and let's say i create an LVM volume for my linux VM, then install it properly, shut it down and take LVM snapshot of it. Basically i've just cloned it (LVM2 snapshots are

Dear virt list I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the GUI, e.g. they are not text only. Is it better to use VMware server or Xen? If using Xen, do I have to convert the images? Regards, Peter -- Dott. Peter

Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Man doesn't show any documented switches for priority scheduling. Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv whose pe's are being migrated is continuously being written (slowly) to. Thanks! jlc

>>> ... Bottom line; There are timing issues with TFTP transfers on VM machines emulating BIOS hardware. Probably the interrupt based timer is not the culprit; now I'm working on /core/fs/pxe/core.c trying to see if there's something wrong there. Best, Patrick <<< I've been working on this issue, I have tested the timers, and as you guys mentioned before they

Hi, I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 Mbytes RAM. first what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? thanks, Guillermo Garron

Hi -- I have a server running CentOS 5.8. It has a 6-core AMD processor, 16Gb memory, and a RAID 5 file system. It serves as both a file server and to run several VMware virtual machines. The guest machines run Windows 7 and various versions of Linux. The system is running the latest version of VMware Workstation. Until recently, I started VMs using the VMware Workstation GUI. The system has

Hi, I'm thinking about how to go about migrating our Xen VMs to KVM. Migrating the configuraton should be easy using the virsh dumpxml/define commands but what is the best way to transfer the (logical volume based) images without too much downtime for the guest system? Can rsync operate on logical volumes? If so I could potentially use "dd" to transfer an initial copy of the

Greetings - I will be getting a new server for my company in the next few months and am trying to get a better understanding of some of the basic theoretical approaches to using Centos KVM on a server. I have found plenty of things to read that discuss how to install KVM on the host and how to install a guest and setup the network bridge, and all the other rudimentary tasks. But all of

Hello listmates, I have encountered a rather peculiar situation. We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSphere 5.5 server. It was running just fine until one day I decided to reboot it and it just would not boot up. Effectively, dracut failed to initialize the LVM, much like under the scenario described here:

Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the

Hi, I installed libvirt on CentOS 6 today, only to find I could create the volume, create the VM, but could not assign the interface to a distributed port group. I then downloaded the latest source, compiled, and it looks to be the same...unless its under a command I'm not recognizing? Does anybody have the great tip that is going to set me free? I hope? Everything we use is on the

Hi all! Anyone tried to install vmware on a xen system (ie. vmware player on dom0?). David _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

I've seen several references to running VMWare under CentOS, but does anybody know how well Parallels runs under CentOS? On a related note, now that Zen is as mature as it is, are commercial VMs really much better than Zen? Miark