Re: [CentOS-virt] get xen name from guest

2010-03-17 Thread Hildebrand, Nils, 232
Hi, how do you create the XEN-Config-File for your DomUs? As with DHCP you could use the MAC-Address to identify your DomU, too. Apart from that you may set the hostname during setup of the DomU. I am using templates to generate new DomUs: After copying the template with rsync into the LV for

Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Hildebrand, Nils, 232
Hi, just two questions: 1. Is there anything faster than XEN-paravirtualization? 2. Why XEN 5? XEN 3 is quite stable, too. I have 31 DomUs up and running on a single Box - and have a strong feeling that even 60 will run flawless. But: All of them are Para-Virtualized. I have no problem with

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
Scot P. Floess wrote: I was wondering, if I do not have hardware that natively supports full virtualization...and I choose to use KVM, You cannot use KVM on systems which do not support hardware virtualization will my VMs be running in some form of chip emulation (and therefore terribly

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Scot P. Floess
At some time, I thought I had gotten KVM working on one of my hosts - but was under the impression QEMU was used for emulation. It was some time ago...and was really me not knowing what I was doing...and tinkering. I could be completely wrong about this... On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Manuel

Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Hildebrand, Nils, 232 wrote: Hi, just two questions: 1. Is there anything faster than XEN-paravirtualization? 2. Why XEN 5? XEN 3 is quite stable, too. I guess you mean Citrix XenServer 5.5 with Xen 5 ? It's a completely different, full

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:42:34AM -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: I was wondering, if I do not have hardware that natively supports full virtualization...and I choose to use KVM, will my VMs be running in some form of chip emulation (and therefore terribly slow). To date, I've been using

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Scot P. Floess
Sure, I understand the support until 2014...was more thinking of moving to 6 and beyond... On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:42:34AM -0400, Scot P. Floess wrote: I was wondering, if I do not have hardware that natively supports full

Re: [CentOS-virt] Silly question about KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: Sure, I understand the support until 2014...was more thinking of moving to 6 and beyond... People focus on this a lot but really you might have 1 machine that needs Dom0 support and 50 that need DomU support. The

Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-03-17 Thread Grant McWilliams
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Dennis J. denni...@conversis.de wrote: On 03/17/2010 02:15 PM, Hildebrand, Nils, 232 wrote: Hi, I have 31 DomUs up and running on a single Box - and have a strong feeling that even 60 will run flawless. But: All of them are Para-Virtualized. I have no