I've heard ESXi 4 fixes some of those issues. (Must have 64bit hardware though)
I run some low-end services from the ESXi 3.5 hosts, but not much since there isn't much available support for doing so. I do find my performance is better on ESXi than it was on VMWare Server. But, I'm running on older Proliant DL360/380 G3 servers (dual xeon 2.8) ESXi 3.5 is very picky about hardware.... Especially hard disk controllers and RAID devices. -Patrick Ring -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device -----Original Message----- From: Eric Shubert <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Aug 04 22:11:24 2010 Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT on Xen? (I hope not) Nothing necessarily in particular. Just like to keep my options open, in case I decide that I'd like to run some software on the directly on the host along side of VMware-server. My host OS is CentOS, so packages are readily available for it. One thing I do run is ntp server. I believe VMware recommends this for ESXi as well. ESXi doesn't appear to like all of my hardware. I have one host with a USB ethernet dongle that is not used by the host, but is bridged to a guest. I had to get the driver for the device from the EPEL repo. Works fine with VMware Server on CentOS, but I doubt getting it to work with ESXi would have been so easy, if even possible. I tried loading ESXi on one of my test hosts, and it didn't like the on board ethernet at all. I pretty much gave up on ESXi at that point, at least until I get some juicier hardware. -- -Eric 'shubes' Patrick Ring wrote: > I'm curious to know what you need to control that can't be done on ESXi? > > -Patrick Ring > -------------------------- > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Shubert <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed Aug 04 20:45:46 2010 > Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT on Xen? (I hope not) > > I've been running VMware Server. > ESXi is a bit more limited hardware wise than I'd like. > I also like the idea of being able to do what I want with the host > software. So far though, the only thing I really run directly on the > host is ntpd (which the guests use to sync time). > > I've thought about alternatives, but nothing has seemed very mature. > I'll probably give KVM a go after CentOS6 is out for a while. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > Patrick Ring wrote: > > I've been running QMT successfully on ESXi for about 4 years. No > problems. > > > > I've thought about (open source) Xen, but never made the move. > > -Patrick Ring > > -------------------------- > > Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Device > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Hughes <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wed Aug 04 20:32:23 2010 > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on Xen? (I hope not) > > > > I just started playing with the free version of ESXi. Seems really good. > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 4, 2010, at 7:21 PM, "Michael Colvin" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I'm running on VMWare ESXi, but was looking to maybe switch up. Xen > > was on > > > my list of possibles, along with Proxmox. (proxmox.com) I was > leaning > > > towards Xen, but, perhaps I shouldn't now? :-) > > > > > > VMWare's working great, just looking for something a little more > budget > > > friendly. :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael J. Colvin > > > NorCal Internet Services > > > www.norcalisp.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Eric Shubert [mailto:[email protected]] > > >> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:40 PM > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: [qmailtoaster] QMT on Xen? (I hope not) > > >> > > >> Is anyone running QMT on Xen? > > >> I just noticed that RHEL6 will not contain Xen, in favor of KVM. > > >> -- > > >> -Eric 'shubes' > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
