Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware by Broadcom

2024-02-16 Thread Michael Keuter
> Am 15.02.2024 um 15:23 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck : > > Hi Group, > > With the VMware transition from perpetual licensing to new subscription > offerings, and the end of free ESXi [1], > > should the VMware support in AstLinux change in any way? > > If you are currently using AstLinux in a V

[Astlinux-users] VMware by Broadcom

2024-02-15 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hi Group, With the VMware transition from perpetual licensing to new subscription offerings, and the end of free ESXi [1], should the VMware support in AstLinux change in any way? If you are currently using AstLinux in a VMware instance, will you continue to do so for the future or switch to s

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread David Kerr
I chose thick provisioning, lazy zeroed for my disk (8GB) but for no particular reason... just didn't seem necessary to go with thin on a 2TB SSD and for backup I use tarsnap. But I would think that thin provisioning should work just fine as it should be invisible to the guest OS. However my expe

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Michael Knill
Ok I will give it a try. Regards Michael Knill On 17/2/20, 10:13 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" wrote: Michael, The way I read it, it looks like "Thin" could work. As long as AstLinux sees the max-size during initial-setup, formats partitions and such ... if ESXi can optimize the

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Michael, The way I read it, it looks like "Thin" could work. As long as AstLinux sees the max-size during initial-setup, formats partitions and such ... if ESXi can optimize the virtual storage, then it should still work. Though I'm not sure how they are doing this. Give it a try and report b

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Michael Knill
Sorry Lonnie no I haven’t tried it yet. Thick is pre allocating all disk storage whereas Thin is allocating on demand. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-AC8E9C20-C05F-4FB5-A5DA-11D0A77A291B.html I want to allocate 20G for each Astlinux box but as I a

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Michael Keuter
I have a few Astlinux system running on VMWare ESXi for several years. No idea about Thin Provisioning. Sent from a mobile device. Michael Keuter > Am 16.02.2020 um 23:40 schrieb Michael Knill > : > >  > Hi Group > > Just wondering if there are any issues using VMWare ESXi Disk Thin > Prov

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
> On Feb 16, 2020, at 4:39 PM, Michael Knill > wrote: > > Hi Group > > Just wondering if there are any issues using VMWare ESXi Disk Thin > Provisioning with Astlinux? I don't know what that ESXi feature is ... are you having issues ? Lonnie __

[Astlinux-users] VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning

2020-02-16 Thread Michael Knill
Hi Group Just wondering if there are any issues using VMWare ESXi Disk Thin Provisioning with Astlinux? Regards Michael Knill ___ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-use

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Knill
: Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 12:23 PM To: AstLinux List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error Hi Michael, Indeed this looks bad (stack dump and all), but it is only cosmetic, an INFO kernel stall warning. We have been seeing this "INFO: rcu_bh detected stall" very rarely, but

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

2016-05-20 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hi Michael, Indeed this looks bad (stack dump and all), but it is only cosmetic, an INFO kernel stall warning. We have been seeing this "INFO: rcu_bh detected stall" very rarely, but from time to time. I have seen it recently on my APU2 box. It just so happens, earlier this week I spent much

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Knill
Interestingly one is 32bit and the other is 64bit so its happening on both. Regards Michael Knill -Original Message- From: Michael Knill Reply-To: AstLinux List Date: Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 10:06 AM To: AstLinux List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Knill
- From: Michael Knill Reply-To: AstLinux List Date: Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 9:40 AM To: AstLinux List Subject: [Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error Hi all I am running two Astlinux appliances in a VMWare vCloud environment and both are getting the same errors as follows: May 19 12:18

[Astlinux-users] VMWare vCloud VM Error

2016-05-20 Thread Michael Knill
Hi all I am running two Astlinux appliances in a VMWare vCloud environment and both are getting the same errors as follows: May 19 12:18:50 CTS-CM-01 user.err kernel: INFO: rcu_bh detected stall on CPU 1 (t=0 jiffies) May 19 12:18:50 CTS-CM-01 user.warn kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Tainted:

[Astlinux-users] VMware and VirtualBox Documentation

2012-01-27 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
With Michael Keuter's help, we have updated the documentation for Virtual Machine usage with AstLinux 1.0.x ... Convert AstLinux install files to VMware http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_vmware Convert AstLinux install files to VirtualBox http://doc.astlinux.org/userdoc:tt_virtualbox Thanks to

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-12 Thread Tom Chadwin
Anyone? > -Original Message- > From: Tom Chadwin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 10 January 2011 17:30 > To: 'AstLinux Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: VMware > > I now have a VM up and running, but still from the ISO. I > made config changes, and they survive a rebo

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-10 Thread Tom Chadwin
I now have a VM up and running, but still from the ISO. I made config changes, and they survive a reboot. However, I forgot to carry out the persistent storage selection process (setup.php). Is my system in a fit state? In other words, should I: 1. Carry on with configuration without configuring

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-10 Thread Tom Chadwin
Keuter [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 07 January 2011 18:14 > To: [email protected]; AstLinux Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware > > >>Hello all > >> > >>I know Christopher and David posted about this last year, but can > &g

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Keuter
>>Hello all >> >>I know Christopher and David posted about this last year, but can anyone >>give me some steps to get Astlinux up and running under VMware, ideally >>which can use the published Aslinux .img files, as I have no Astlinux >>development environment? >> >>Thanks >> >>Tom > >I don't know

Re: [Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Keuter
>Hello all > >I know Christopher and David posted about this last year, but can anyone >give me some steps to get Astlinux up and running under VMware, ideally >which can use the published Aslinux .img files, as I have no Astlinux >development environment? > >Thanks > >Tom I don't know VMware so w

[Astlinux-users] VMware

2011-01-07 Thread Tom Chadwin
Hello all I know Christopher and David posted about this last year, but can anyone give me some steps to get Astlinux up and running under VMware, ideally which can use the published Aslinux .img files, as I have no Astlinux development environment? Thanks Tom -