Hi Michael, At this point, I don't see any advantage for using "genx86_64-vm" with VMware, unless ESXi supports virtio-net NIC drivers ? The vmxnet3 NIC driver is still quite efficient.
The "genx86_64-vm" board type has advantages in both KVM and Xen hypervisors and supports virtio-pci drivers and suspend/resume kernel support. The "genx86_64-vm" standard build currently does not include major PCI related packages like Wanpipe, Rhino, HFCS cards and DAHDI card firmware. Unless people suggest otherwise, we have quite some time until 1.2.7 will be officially released. In theory, on bare metal the "genx86_64-vm" build will be slightly slower than the "genx86_64" build for kernel execution, and VMware ESXi is more bare-metal-ish then a paravirtualized VM, agree ? Some standard distributions, like CentOS 7, merge the "genx86_64-vm" kernel specifics into their standard distribution, but for embedded hardware the AstLinux philosophy has always been to try to get the most out of the hardware. For example alix/net5501 builds do not have a SMP kernel enabled as that cost 6-8% (IIRC) in performance. While the "genx86_64-vm" board type would work fine on VMware ESXi, we are still recommending the "genx86_64" board type for VMware. > PS. My VM customer has been running like a charm! Excellent to hear ! Lonnie On Mar 13, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Michael Knill <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au> wrote: > Hi Lonnie > > Sorry for not asking earlier, but is there any advantage/disadvantage in > using this board type for VMWare ESXi? > If there are disadvantages then should the name be a little more Xen specific? > > PS. My VM customer has been running like a charm! > > Regards > Michael Knill > > > > > > > > On 13/03/2016, 4:59 AM, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In development for the next release, the AstLinux team has added a new board > type "genx86_64-vm". > > This board type is specifically designed for virtual machines using KVM/Xen > and Virtio paravirtualized drivers. > > Anyone who is interested, we would appreciate testing. Feel free to > privately email me for a link to an "astlinux-1.0-7585-genx86_64-vm.iso" > installer ISO. > > This new documentation entry shows how the open source XenServer and > XenCenter Windows client can be used to create an AstLinux VM... > > XenServer > http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:guest_vm_xenserver > > BTW, the above example was all performed via VMware Fusion on OS X. > > Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
