proxmox rox!  Thanks for the tip.

Regards,

George Toft

On 10/31/2012 4:49 PM, JD Austin wrote:
I second the Proxmox VE recommendation; expecially if you use the virtio drivers.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers
If you must have USB support then go with Virtualbox though.


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Eric Shubert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    While I still have a couple hosts running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on
    CentOS 5.x, I've given up that ship. I think you're walking on
    thin ice running VMWare Server 2 on just about anything these
    days, especially Windoze. I doubt you'll find much help solving
    any problems with Server 2, given that VMWare has dropped it as I
    expect most users have also by now.

    I highly recommend running Proxmox VE as a virtualization host
    platform. It's similar to VMware Server in many ways, but I've
    found it even easier to use. While it requires a cpu that supports
    virtualization, that's not so hard to find these days.

    We're beginning to document the process of building a Tagcose
    server based on PVE. See http://tagcose.com for details. We meet
    monthly at UAT (2nd Sat) to work on Tagcose development. You're
    welcome to join us if you'd like.

-- -Eric 'shubes'




    On 10/28/2012 01:13 PM, George Toft wrote:

        Continuing saga . . .
        SMB and FTP from another physical to this virtual run at full
        speed.
        SMB from every Win7 box except this one runs at full speed.  The
        communications bog down only for SMB/FTP on the physical host
        to the
        VM.  Next step is to build a dedicated VMware host.  I
        probably should
        have done that to begin with, but was trying to cut down on
        the number
        of physical systems running.

        Regards,

        George Toft

        On 10/28/2012 7:13 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

            thanks for the update!
            :-)~MIKE~(-:


            On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, George Toft
            <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
            <mailto:[email protected]
            <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:

                Further investigation shows it's not FTP nor samba.
             It's Windows
                7 (which I used for Windows file and FTP).  Using
            smbclient on a
                Linux box I get 19MB/sec and FTP from Linux I get
            32MB/sec.
                 Concurrent with replacing the old file server was the
            purchase of
                a new PC.  I guess we know what XP does better than
            Windows 7.

                Regards,

                George Toft

                On 10/27/2012 6:01 PM, George Toft wrote:

                    Spent several hours researching this one - can't
            find a
                    solution.  I hope someone here can hit me with a
            clue-by-four.

                    CentOS 6.3 64-bit virtual running under VMware
            2.0.2 fresh
                    install with FTP/Samba/NFS running.  I copied
            500+GB of data
                    from the old computer to the new one using NFS at
            full network
                    speed (11+ MB/sec).  Life's good.

                    Now here it is a day later, and my samba write
            speed is a
                    blazing 80KB/sec (up from 40KB/s when I started
                    troubleshooting).  I read samba should approach
            FTP speed and
                    I verified it does - FTP writes to the new machine
            at about
                    the same speed.  Reads still take place a full
            speed (now it's
                    on a 1Gbps network) - 33MB/sec. Writes . . . 99.8%
            slower.  I
                    did not have this problem on the previous samba
            server (CentOS
                    4.8 32-bit).

                    I added memory (it now has 1GB RAM, 1 GB swap) and
            it has 2
                    CPU's. This had no effect.

                    In summary, NFS works at full speed both ways.
             Samba/FTP are
                    fast on reads but snail slow on writes.

                    My next thought is to install ClearOS, test it,
            and copy their
                    smb.conf.  Or install CentOS 5.x and see if it has
            the same
                    problems.

                    Any ideas where to look on this one?  smb.conf
            necessary.


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