On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, "J. Roeleveld" <[email protected]> wrote:i > > Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" <[email protected]> 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 and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki).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, >> -- > > > Pandu. > > Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts? > I thought that was deprecated? >
Ah, sorry. What I meant was xstools daemon. It's necessary to properly monitor Linux PV guests on XenServer. It's apparently a simple shell script, which commits suicide when it can't determine what Linux distro it's running in. Need to add several lines of code within the script to enable it to recognize Gentoo and not commit suicide. XenCenter/CloudStack will.afterwards detect that the machine is running Gentoo. Won't affect anything, but better than it reporting "unknown Linux" :-) Rgds, --
