Re: [CentOS-virt] VMWare - 5.2 Update - Kernel Best Practices

2008-06-26 Thread David Hollis
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 06:04 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: This bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 seems to suggest clocksource=pit and divider=10 will crash kernels and I did not see it's fixed in the release notes. Right, so, if you do not need the clocksource= option, you

Re: [CentOS-virt] VMWare - 5.2 Update - Kernel Best Practices

2008-06-30 Thread David Hollis
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:32 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: kernel-vm are a workaround for the current issue on the regular kernel. No one forces you to use them :) But if I do use them, am I able to avoid any kernel cmdline params games (like clock=, noapic, etc etc)? It's sounding a bit like every

[CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools 20100425 rpm

2010-05-19 Thread David Hollis
All, I've updated the open-vm-tools packages that have been floating around to the latest release - 4/25/2010 - for those that are interested. There is quite a bit of new additions/changes over the past year such as the addition of a fuse driver for vmblock devices, vmxnet3, pvscsi, etc. SRPMS

Re: [CentOS-virt] open-vm-tools 20100425 rpm

2010-05-19 Thread David Hollis
On 05/19/2010 09:15 AM, compdoc wrote: Are these tools useful for KVM? I don't believe so. KVM/QEMU would be using the virtio based modules rather than the VMware vmxnet3/pvscsi stuff. ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Choices for shared network storage, NFS vs iSCSI

2010-05-19 Thread David Hollis
On 05/19/2010 09:30 AM, compdoc wrote: I think iSCSI is easier to implement and is certainly fast, but I'm unclear about the number of iSCSI clients that can access a volume (iSCSI target) at the same time. So, I use it with only one client at a time. iSCSI does allow multiple initiators to