On 9/1/07, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org > > Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how > reliable it really is? Server should run 27/7, especially taking into account > that I am going to use Trixbox telephony server under virtualization. > > If KVM crashes, someone of my impatient colleagues may crash something heavy > on me, you know what does it mean "phone system does not work at all" in a > busy company. Its a joke of course, but I must be 99.99% sure that it will > work reliably. >
Well, KVM has several issues with *booting* certain guests, but after boot it works very reliably. The issues: graphical GRUB menu is the main one. Disable it - make it text GRUB, and some guest Linux kernels also need nmi_watchdog=0 to boot. Guest OSs, that work reliably with KVM are: RedHat/Fedora and Debian Etch. (needs no workarounds) Ubuntu, SUSE and Mandriva need workarounds described above to boot. Just try it. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
