Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-24 Thread compdoc
Fri 2/19/2010 Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk Do your own testing if in doubt. OK. Hosts: Centos 5.4 with kvm, and latest (yum) updates. The switch is a 3com gigabit switch. These are production servers and each has guests doing actual work, but the servers' cpus are idle most of the time. Guests:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/2/20 S.Tindall tindall.sat...@brandxmail.com: On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 02:41 +0100, Kenni Lund wrote: 2010/2/18 compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: I would also just use the e1000 emulation. Theres nothing better about the virtio devices... ...other than lower CPU utilization and higher

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-20 Thread S.Tindall
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:10 +0100, Kenni Lund wrote: 2010/2/20 S.Tindall tindall.sat...@brandxmail.com: Are you using test-signed drivers or do you have a redistributable source for release-signed drivers (that chain to a microsoft root)? I don't think that anyone are talking about

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-19 Thread Kenni Lund
2010/2/18 compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: I would also just use the e1000 emulation. Theres nothing better about the virtio devices... ...other than lower CPU utilization and higher throughout? Since these are CentOS/RHEL guests, I wouldn't even consider using e1000, I would just go for

Re: [CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-19 Thread S.Tindall
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 02:41 +0100, Kenni Lund wrote: 2010/2/18 compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com: I would also just use the e1000 emulation. Theres nothing better about the virtio devices... ...other than lower CPU utilization and higher throughout? Since these are CentOS/RHEL guests, I

[CentOS-virt] Moving vmware guests to a CentOS KVM server

2010-02-18 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to move ten CentOS/RHEL 5.4 vmware guests from a vmware ESXi 4 host to a CentOS 5.4 KVM host (fully patched). But I have two doubts. First: all these guests have two e1000 network drivers defined as a eth0,eth1 and modprobe.conf file is the same on all: alias eth0 e1000