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

2010-03-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 03:49:40PM -0700, Grant McWilliams wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Dennis J. [1]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

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

2010-03-17 Thread Hildebrand, Nils, 232
- Von: centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Christopher G. Stach II Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Februar 2010 09:04 An: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Betreff: Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM [...] Here are a few tips: 1. F

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

2010-03-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
about the virtualization on CentOS Betreff: Re: [CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM [...] Here are a few tips: 1. F*** KVM. 2. Stick with Xen because there is quite a lot of time until 5 is EOL'd and if you haven't noticed, it's actually a mature technology

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

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

2010-02-26 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- Dave Augustus da...@ingraftedsoftware.com wrote: I finally realized that when running Xen and in Dom0, Xen hides the AMD-V in /proc/cpuinfo Really? dom0: flags : fpu tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm

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

2010-02-26 Thread compdoc
KVM works. I'm happy with it. But then I build servers with 6 guests or less for small businesses. There are comparisons. They say KVM doesn't scale as well. They say in some areas xen shines, and in some areas kvm shines. But the comparisons are all from last year before red hat released 5.4.

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

2010-02-26 Thread Iain Morris
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: Xen HVM guests require CPU virtualization extensions ... snip ... and enabled in the BIOS. This seems obvious but has caught me before, wasting some time. Dell PowerEdge systems seem to ship with virt disabled in the

[CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Augustus
Hello All, I have been building a new server to deploy using Xen. However, seeing that Redhat is moving towards KVM, it would seem beneficial to deply this server using KVM as well. This is a Centos 5.4 x86_64 fresh install. So here is the scoop: * running the xen kernel with 2 vms works

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

2010-02-24 Thread Adam
Did you install kvm? If you need to move the xen virtual machines to kvm you will need to boot them in rescue mode, change your modprobe.conf to load the regular scsci and nic drivers, install a regular kernel, remove the xen console from inittab and remove console=xvc0 from your /etc/grub.conf