Hi Sorry for the non-threaded reply - I am following the digests...
> On 3/8/2010 12:11 AM, bofh wrote: > > Is there *ANY* good virtualization software out there? > > I don't care what OS > > it needs to host it (preferably not windows :)) - my needs are > > simple (home use): > > I haven't really tried out Xen or qemu, but it seems ESXi should > at least be adequate for the job, despite my earlier > "enterprisey" comments. Personally, I think I'd put Solaris > on a second box and mount it via NFS, probably using a > dedicated NIC, and use that as a cheap SAN. > OpenBSD works well under ESX, I'd expect it to work well > under ESXi too. OpenBSD4.4 works great under vmware server 2.0.2, but OpenBSD4.6 not really. As an example, the kernel compile time went from roughly 15 mins to more than 2 hours. Certain task just seems 'slow' or kind of. The sysbench thread benchmark takes like 10 times wthat it should... Couldn't find out any probable cause. Seems vmware server having a problem or bug or not being optimised for it. Tried different configs and setting (vmware and opensbd, 32 / 64 bits, ...), but with no real positive result. So I would say forget vmware server. As this seems not (based on) the same vitualisation sw as esx(i), this might not count. The Fusion (Mac vmware) is working great again, though. Prost! cmb
