Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-17 Thread James Hogarth
Uh.. are you mixing Xen and KVM now? I think KVM *always* requires the kernel module, aka CPU support for hardware virtualization. -- Pasi You might be right... having trouble googling something... but I thought that kvm without -enable-kvm (or with -no-kvm) and with -kernel, -append and

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:35:24AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: Uh.. are you mixing Xen and KVM now? I think KVM *always* requires the kernel module, aka CPU support for hardware virtualization. -- Pasi You might be right... having trouble googling something... but I thought

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-17 Thread James Hogarth
Thanks for the clarification. On 17 Aug 2010 17:57, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:35:24AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote: Uh.. are you mixing Xen and KVM now? I think KVM *always* requires the kernel module, aka CPU support for hardware virtualization. --

[CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
I am finally starting to pull the plug on vmware 2 and want to start migrating to KVM, what I would like to know and I have searched but not found anything conclusive. Is it possible to run Vmware server 2 and KVM at the same time, I am running Centos 5.5 x64 on a 16 core 32g memory

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread compdoc
At the same time on the same server? I don't see how. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Danilo Nascimento
I think that you can use the qemu without the kvm / kvm-(intel|amd) module. But i hardly think that VMware will still running with the KVM module loaded On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: At the same time on the same server? I don’t see how…

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway ;) I did come across this post in fedora forum that got me to think it might work Currently, I have *VMware* *Server* 2.0 and *KVM* on the *same* headless machine with 4G mem, AMD 4400+. It's running for a small

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread compdoc
Oh, I see. That's the free version that runs on top of another OS, isn't it? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread Tom Bishop
I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed. That would be good I have read several things but would be nice to see. I'm not sure how much vmware server 2 makes use of the hardware extensions but thought I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Vmware Server 2 and KVM....

2010-08-16 Thread James Hogarth
On 16 August 2010 16:22, Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote: I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed. That would be good I have read several things but would be nice to see. I'm not sure how much