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and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki).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 >-- >_______________________________________________________________ >This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! >Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
I would suggest installing the vmaare tools when the VM is running on a VMWare server. You get better driver performance and the management tools actually work. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
