On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but >> decided against that, and have been playing and reading. >> >> I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a >> new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend. >> >> Can someone point me to some recent/decent docs on best practices for >> this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would be ok >> too. >> >> Things like vmware-tools installation (is open-vm-tools good enough >> nowadays?), time syncing, snapshots/backups, etc is what I'm looking for. > > > May I join the club? I have been running a few Gentoo-VMs > for some time, but I'm still quite new to this "ESXi-world". > But one I know for sure is that hypervisor-virtualization > is much more complex than OS-virtualization (i.e. VServer > or OpenVZ which I have used previously). > > vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running > my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real > pain in a**. And trully I did not see any benefit in running > vm-tools (maybe it would be different on desktop). For > shutdown of Gentoo-VMs from ESXi I use ssh-script or > hibernation. > > Snapshots are very well covered by esxi and for backup I use > ghetto-vcb tool (script). It tried backup&restore on one > of my running Gentoo-VM servers and it works like charm. > > For VM-hardware I used (iirc) CentOS template, because > with "other linux 64b" I did not get hw-options I wanted > to use (LSI-Logic Parallel SCSI controller, and VMXNET3 > network adapter). > > Unfortunatelly there is not a lot info about Gentoo & ESXi > and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki). But > I used guidelines for general linux-VM, and I consulted > problems on VMware community web-page... > > Jarry > --
Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly. Do a Google search for "gentoo xenserver" and if you find pages written by me, those are my experiences running Gentoo on top of XenServer, successfully. Rgds, --
