Re: Virtualization

On 1/13/24 16:54, Chip Snuth wrote: Thank you for your kind words on encouragement,. I fully intend to stick around this list as well as becomming more active on the debian users forums. I  choose to use  virtualbox because I can spin up multiple instances of Debian inorder to  not only help

Re: Virtualization

also to help fellow users debug there  issues and or solve their issues. Thanks, Chip On 1/13/24 15:15, David Christensen wrote: On 1/13/24 08:38, Chip Snuth wrote: Hello, Hello.  :-) I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with    Debian instead of hou

Re: Virtualization

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 7:42 PM Chip Snuth wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with > Debian instead of houseing my RHEL installation . Would the Debian > community view me as a trator ofr chill for closed source and pr

Re: Virtualization

On 1/13/24 08:38, Chip Snuth wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with   Debian instead of houseing my RHEL installation . Would the Debian community view me as a trator ofr chill for closed source and proprietary sof

Re: Virtualization

Hi, On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 08:38:37AM -0800, Chip Snuth wrote: > I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with   > Debian instead of houseing my RHEL installation . Would the Debian community > view me as a trator ofr chill for closed source and propri

Virtualization

Hello, I'm currently using RHEL however, I am still virtualization to play with   Debian instead of houseing my RHEL installation . Would the Debian community view me as a trator ofr chill for closed source and proprietary software? personally prefer the held back  kernel and softwa

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

> What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create > a one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? Last time I needed such a thing I used LXC. Stefan

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

Op 26-08-2023 om 18:40 schreef Carl Fink: Hi, I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox, just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then. What's the current recommendation for som

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

So,surely go with virtualbox or vmware workstation. On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 1:20 AM Carl Fink wrote: > > On 8/26/23 16:01, Mario Marietto wrote: > > If you want a powerful tool,you should spend some of your time on it. > > If you want to use something easier,you will lose some features,at least.

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

On 8/26/23 16:01, Mario Marietto wrote: If you want a powerful tool,you should spend some of your time on it. If you want to use something easier,you will lose some features,at least. Yep. That's why I specified that I was more interested in easy setup in the threadstarter -Carl

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now? > On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote: > > For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for > virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS even > your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

+ kvm,they are the most powerful tools for > > virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS > > even your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you can't. > > > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM James Bloom wrote: > > > > Carl: >

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

Well, last time I looked (at least six or seven years ago) it was a weird maze of fiddling to get QEMU/KVM set up. Is it easier now? On 8/26/23 14:53, Mario Marietto wrote: For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

Hey Carl, I am currently using Virtual Box installed through their official website instructions. The screen's top left quadrant has some flashing problems in a Fedora 38 guest, but otherwise works fine. If anyone here knows why that is happening, please let me know. It is a NUC using an the Intel

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

For sure you can't miss qemu + kvm,they are the most powerful tools for virtualization. With qemu and kvm you can pass through to the guest OS even your gpu. With virtualbox or vmware you can't. On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 8:40 PM James Bloom wrote: > Carl: > > I use VirtualBox

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

On 8/26/23 18:29, Carl Fink wrote: What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create a one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as VirtualBox was back in the day. I use Virsh and virt-man

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

: Carl Fink Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2023 9:29:30 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Virtualization under Bookworm Hi, I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox, just from inertia

Virtualization under Bookworm

Hi, I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox, just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then. What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create a one-off VM

Re: Virtualization anomalies

's often a facility to enable/disable the CPU > virtualisation feature. Well, you were correct. I had to search around for it, but virtualization was turned off in the BIOS. Thanks. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Softwar

Re: Virtualization anomalies

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:41:51 +1000 David wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 07:35, wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:17:33 +0200 Nicolas George > > wrote: > > > > Have you checked if virtualization is disabled in the setup? IIRC > > > many systems disable it

Re: Virtualization anomalies

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 07:35, wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:17:33 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > > Have you checked if virtualization is disabled in the setup? IIRC many > > systems disable it by default because it is supposed to make rootkits > > more dangerous or s

Re: Virtualization anomalies

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:17:33 +0200 Nicolas George wrote: > Have you checked if virtualization is disabled in the setup? IIRC many > systems disable it by default because it is supposed to make rootkits > more dangerous or something. Can you clarify "in the setup"? Paul

Re: Virtualization anomalies

pa...@quillandmouse.com (12022-07-27): > Folks: > > I'm running an Intel Core i3, model 10100. According to Intel's spec > sheet on their site, this CPU has VT-x (virtualization) support. From > what I've read, this shows up in "lscpu" as the "vmx"

Virtualization anomalies

Folks: I'm running an Intel Core i3, model 10100. According to Intel's spec sheet on their site, this CPU has VT-x (virtualization) support. From what I've read, this shows up in "lscpu" as the "vmx" flag. When I run lscpu on this chip, that flag doesn't

Re: Your choice of Virtualization Software

On 11/4/18 12:59 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: Kvm QED. The ONLY reason to use virtualbox on linux is if you have a need to have cross platform containers for VM's for say windows and osx. I run VirtualBox on Windows, MacOS, and Debian. David

Re: Your choice of Virtualization Software

Hi. Please do not hijack the thread, start your own. On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:32:25AM +, D&P Dimov wrote: > I need to install and run Windows 10 as a virtual machine on the latest > Debian Stable (9.5). I would much, much rather use a free (as in freedom) > GPL-licensed software d

Re: Your choice of Virtualization Software

On 11/3/18 8:32 PM, D&P Dimov wrote: I need to install and run Windows 10 as a virtual machine on the latest Debian Stable (9.5). I would much, much rather use a free (as in freedom) GPL-licensed software doe that. (I know, I see the irony too, of running the definition of proprietary software

KVM virtualization with VMM/virt-manager and mouse lag and stutter

This is one of those I-fixed-it-myself posts where I'm just sharing my solution for others, should they google it in the future. I recently started learning about KVM virtualization. Naturally I stumbled across the VMM/virt-manager GTK tool, since that's pretty much the only

Re: qemu with KVM support compared to "professional" virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

e of most of what I need to do. Also, if there are bugs, I'd expect them to be fixed quickly, as a lot of (big) organizations depend on kvm. Support for kvm/qemu is also quite good, there are a lot of people with lots of experience with it out there. > say professional virtualization

qemu with KVM support compared to "professional" virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

executable to crate virtual-machines. However, is qemu with KVM support as suitable(stability, reliability) for production environment as so to say professional virtualization products from VMware or Oracle? thanks, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 08:53:55 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > There's a handy web interface. > If the machine to be backed up isn't reachable, it tries again later (1 > hour by default). > You can configure blackout periods, so no backups will take place > during certain hours. > You can override the bla

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 08:33:39PM +0200, B wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion > > to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the > > difference? > > First,

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

Don't replicate the VMs. Have separate VMs built using the same configuration. Use a configuration management solution (e.g. puppet) to define the configuration of your VMs. Replicate *data* instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:57:57 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion > to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the > difference? First, backups are nightly compressed and same files are hardlinked, so keepi

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

@B please ignore my first message i forgot to add the list. Thanks for the input i really appreciate that. but i have a confusion to clear. if i use direct rsync and rsync with Backuppc what is the difference? actually i am asking because i and the software both use same utility then what is

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:58:48 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: I would use backuppc through ssh with the rsync method; this way, your VM would be fully reconstructible, band width wouldn't be clobbered and backup(s) wouldn't take much place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

Dear All, we are planning to rent a new server with RAID1 in the cloud and the purpose of this server will be Qemu KVM virtualization. everything is fine but the show stopper is Disaster recovery Site. i think of 4 options and all of them are not upto my requirement and limits. 1st, Option was

Fwd: confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

Sorry missed the list somehow. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thanks for sharing your thought. > > just learn from some where, that "creating disk with virt-install can only > create raw on the other hand qcow2 first needs to be initiated as volume" > > Thanks, >

Re: confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

Thanks for sharing your thought. just learn from some where, that "creating disk with virt-install can only create raw on the other hand qcow2 first needs to be initiated as volume" Thanks, On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:45:26AM +0500, Mu

Re: confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:45:26AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with > Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with > virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before creating a VM. > so my que

confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

i have been going through Administration handbook and got confused in KVM virtualization section. Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:50:09AM +0100, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi > > I have recently experienced a server being "hacked" due to a security > problem with a PHP application that made it possible for the "hacker" to > gain a web shell. > > Due to this experience I would like to know what the best

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:50:09 +0100 Martin Braun wrote: > Hi > > I have recently experienced a server being "hacked" due to a security > problem with a PHP application that made it possible for the "hacker" to > gain a web shell. > > Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 14/03/14 15:51, shawn wilson wrote: >> >> On Mar 14, 2014 12:13 AM, "Brad Alexander" > > wrote: >>> >> > > Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way to >> limit such problems is, espec

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On 14/03/14 15:51, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Mar 14, 2014 12:13 AM, "Brad Alexander" > wrote: >> > Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way to > limit such problems is, especially when hosting web servers for users > who may or may not in

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On Mar 14, 2014 12:13 AM, "Brad Alexander" wrote: > >>> >>> Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way to limit such problems is, especially when hosting web servers for users who may or may not installed unsecure applications on the web server. > > > Auditing your security is

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

l" VMs is that containers share the host node's kernel, while a full virtualization involves representing, to some degree, everything about a physical machine, e.g. BIOS, kernel, etc. > I think most providers use OpenStack (a suite of technologies). YMMV > On Mar 13, 2014 11:06 PM, &qu

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

On 14/03/14 13:50, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi > > I have recently experienced a server being "hacked" due to a security > problem with a PHP application that made it possible for the "hacker" to > gain a web shell. Has that problem been rectified? If not

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

Well Linux has LXC which is supposed to be equivalent to jails (also see docker). But use whatever suits you. Idk what's current for breaking out of VMs is. It might be good to pay attention to who is using the most entropy and make sure you don't run out. Most VMs use processor VT to isolate thin

Security question concerning jail or virtualization

Hi I have recently experienced a server being "hacked" due to a security problem with a PHP application that made it possible for the "hacker" to gain a web shell. Due to this experience I would like to know what the best way to limit such problems is, especially when hosting web servers for user

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Saturday 23 June 2012 21:51:22 green wrote: > T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > > will be used only occa

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 10:51 +, Camaleón wrote: > VirtualBox is usually a good option. Easy to get, easy to install and > easy to use. +1 Install it and use it, no reading is needed. OTOH hardware such as e.g. USB can become an issue. I experienced timing issues with USB, even with some Oracle

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:19:11 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > will be used only occasionally, not a production environment, so the > goal i

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On 24/06/12 20:21, Bartek Krawczyk wrote: > On Saturday, 23 June 2012, green > wrote: >> virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality via CLI > > VirtualBox can also be run in CLI. ... And you can also get a GUI (via a VNC viewer) with KVM :-) Richard

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Saturday, 23 June 2012, green wrote: > virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality via CLI VirtualBox can also be run in CLI. -- Bartek Krawczyk network and system administrator

Re: Was and is: Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

24.06.2012 10:11, Mika Suomalainen kirjoitti: > 23.06.2012 23:21, Ralf Mardorf kirjoitti: >> > On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 22:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> > > Sorry, chimed in, I'm curious if editing the >> >>> > > subject, will keep the spam away >> > >> > It does! >> > No it

Re: Was and is: Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

23.06.2012 23:21, Ralf Mardorf kirjoitti: > On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 22:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> > > Sorry, chimed in, I'm curious if editing the >>> > > subject, will keep the spam away >> > >> > It does! > No it doesn't :(, there just is a little bit more delay. Don't mention him if you

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 18:09 -0600: > --- On Sat, 6/23/12, green wrote: > > virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality > > via CLI > > I wonder if kvm will work without enabling virtualization option in the > BIOS. Guest OS performance isn't a p

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

--- On Sat, 6/23/12, green wrote: > virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality > via CLI I wonder if kvm will work without enabling virtualization option in the BIOS. Guest OS performance isn't a priority for me (while host OS is), so I don't care about hardw

Re: Was and is: Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 22:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Sorry, joe1assis...@gmail.com chimed in, I'm curious if editing the > > subject, will keep the spam away > > It does! No it doesn't :(, there just is a little bit more delay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Was and is: Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

> Sorry, joe1assis...@gmail.com chimed in, I'm curious if editing the > subject, will keep the spam away It does! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/134

Was and is: Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 22:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 13:51 -0600, green wrote: > > T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > > > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > > > hardware is fairly recent (sh

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 13:51 -0600, green wrote: > T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > > will be use

Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

T Elcor wrote at 2012-06-23 11:19 -0600: > I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The > hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP > will be used only occasionally, not a production environment, so the goal > i

Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

Hi, I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP will be used only occasionally, not a production environment, so the goal is to have an easy virtualization setup that minimally impact

Re: LXC Container based Virtualization on Debian Squeeze HowTo

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > Have you considered in adding this useful HowTo into Debian wiki? > > http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization > Never Knew Such a Wiki Existed. Thanks for pointing out. Will Do :-) --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: LXC Container based Virtualization on Debian Squeeze HowTo

On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:17:36 +0530, Siju George wrote: > Thought This will benefit those who are new to LXC Container based > Virtualization. (...) Have you considered in adding this useful HowTo into Debian wiki? http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization Greetings, -- Camaleón

LXC Container based Virtualization on Debian Squeeze HowTo

Thought This will benefit those who are new to LXC Container based Virtualization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lxc http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ = LXC - Container Based Virtualization = 1)Installation of LXC on Squeeze

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

On 01/08/11 09:06, Christoph Pilka wrote: Hi, there's lot of work I've done to document all the stuff, so I'd really appreciate if anyone here has the time to translate the howtos. The idea with the copy back sounds fair. But please don't forget to refer the original work within your translation

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

Hi, there's lot of work I've done to document all the stuff, so I'd really appreciate if anyone here has the time to translate the howtos. The idea with the copy back sounds fair. But please don't forget to refer the original work within your translation ;-) Cheerio, Chris > Would you mind if the

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

On 26/07/11 18:18, Christoph Pilka wrote: > Hi folks, > > in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which > Cheerio, > Chris > > As noted by others (and yourself), many of the works are not in English... I appreciate that you'd like credit your your work, and possibly crea

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

rvers (Apache2, Nginx, Lighttpd ...) * Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, ...) * CMS's (Plone, Drupal, ...) * Virtualization (Xen, VMware ESX ...) * Backup (Bacula, rsync ...) * E-Mail& Groupware (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenXchange, Zarafa ...) * VoIP (Asterisk, Gemeinschaft ...

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

rvers (Apache2, Nginx, Lighttpd ...) * Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, ...) * CMS's (Plone, Drupal, ...) * Virtualization (Xen, VMware ESX ...) * Backup (Bacula, rsync ...) * E-Mail& Groupware (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenXchange, Zarafa ...) * VoIP (Asterisk, Gemeinschaft ...

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

+1 german here too On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Christoph Pilka wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which >> are online now at >> http://www.asconix.com/howtos/**debian >> >

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

Christoph Pilka wrote: Hi folks, in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which are online now at http://www.asconix.com/howtos/debian They seem to be all in German even after selecting the UK flag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:18:44 -0400 (EDT), Christoph Pilka wrote: > > in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which > are online now at ... Looks promising, Christoph. But it appears to be all in German, even when I click on the UK flag. After all, this is the English list

More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, ...) * CMS's (Plone, Drupal, ...) * Virtualization (Xen, VMware ESX ...) * Backup (Bacula, rsync ...) * E-Mail & Groupware (Postfix, Dovecot, OpenXchange, Zarafa ...) * VoIP (Asterisk, Gemeinschaft ...) * E-Commerce (Magento, OXID VirtueMart ...) * Media (X

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:49:05PM +0200, Glennie Vignarajah wrote: > > well my question was about how to do it without guest shutdown. > > I am not aware of any software for doing this (ie backingup VM online with > appplication level consistency). > > In order to minimize the downtime, you may

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

Le 17/08/2010 vers 13:27, dans le message intitulé "Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup", Martin Kraus(Martin Kraus ) a écrit: Hi, > well my question was about how to do it without guest shutdown. I am not aware of any software for doing this (ie backingup V

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:07:22AM +0200, Glennie Vignarajah wrote: > - Every month(or very term), the FS containing virtual machine' images > is > backed up. Of course, the virtual machines are shutdown during the this > backup!. To shudown virtual hosts from a prebackup script, you

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

Le 15/08/2010 vers 19:48, dans le message intitulé "Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup", Martin Kraus(Martin Kraus ) a écrit: Hello, > The problem isn't where to backup but how. the problem is to get consistent > filesystem, consisten data in the filesys

Re: kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 03:50:28PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:00:26 +0200, Martin Kraus wrote: > > > Is there a > > way to make consistent backups of the guest without shutting them down? > > The major problem I see is that there's no way to freeze a filesystem > > inside a gue

kvm virtualization, consistent guest backup

Hello. I have kvm guests running from lvm partitions on the host. Is there a way to make consistent backups of the guest without shutting them down? The major problem I see is that there's no way to freeze a filesystem inside a guest to make an lvm snapshot from the host. Does anyone have any (p

Re: LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)

I believe the point of the LVM Snapshot is to make an unchanging version of your LV that can be backed up without risk of changes occurring to the volume during the backup process. You still have to do the actual backup as usual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:32:17AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100202135559.ga5...@ra.ncl.ac.uk>, Jon Dowland wrote: > You backups should be protection against at least: (a) user error, (b) normal > hardware failure, and (c) disaster. I find the website

LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)

In <20100202135559.ga5...@ra.ncl.ac.uk>, Jon Dowland wrote: >On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafał Radecki >wrote: >> I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use >> something like LVM snapshots for backups. > >Just to pick up on this point, I would suggest that LVM on >its ow

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

In , Rafał Radecki wrote: >I plan to use virtualization in my production environment. I plan to use one >of the following options: >- KVM; [snip: Software that is not in Debian.] I recommend the one that is on-topic for the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

Celejar wrote: On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:55 +0100 Odd wrote: ... Another thing is the screen estate. 9-10" is just too small to do any serious virtualization, at least with desktop OSes. Running Don't see the problem. Even on my 15" laptop, I generally run with all windows

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:20:55 +0100 Odd wrote: ... > Another thing is the screen estate. 9-10" is just too small to do > any serious virtualization, at least with desktop OSes. Running Don't see the problem. Even on my 15" laptop, I generally run with all windows maximiz

Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?

e running flash websites, or streaming sites like 4OD and iplayer, let alone another OS Yeah, the Atom processor is very underpowered for such tasks. Another thing is the screen estate. 9-10" is just too small to do any serious virtualization, at least with desktop OSes. Running Debian as a g

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x27;s latest stuff has hardware support for virtualization. Check this list before buying: http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx as i recall, some CPUs actually have HW virt support, but it's been disabled in the BIOS. can anyone find something online that describes anyone who tripped over such a

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On 02/02/2010 14:07, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:28:28 +0300 > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > ... > >> But who would virtualize on a netbook? > > I haven't actually done this, but I can think of an obvious use case > where I'd like to: running Windows software on a Linux netbook.

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> Angus Hedger : > I have used Sun Virtual box for a long time both on windows and > linux, for a bit of casual windows/linux visualisation, and the only > problem I have had is that the OSE has no support for virtual usb. I tried both, but virtualbox is much slower than KVM. Performances are us

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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:28:28 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: ... > But who would virtualize on a netbook? I haven't actually done this, but I can think of an obvious use case where I'd like to: running Windows software on a Linux netbook. I understand that I won't enjoy running the latest

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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: > ola...@gmail.com wrote: > > Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the > > latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... > > Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware > support for vi

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On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 12:19:49PM +0100, Rafał Radecki wrote: > I plan to install Windows 2008 as a guest. I want to use > something like LVM snapshots for backups. Just to pick up on this point, I would suggest that LVM on its own is not an adequate backup solution. Used to have a non-moving tar

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ndows run... > > > Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware > > > support for virtualization. Check this list before buying: > > > http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx > > > > as i recall, some CPUs actually have HW virt support, but it'

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>>> Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware >>> support for virtualization. Check this list before buying: >>> http://ark.intel.com/VTList.aspx >> >> as i recall, some CPUs actually have HW virt support, but it's been >> d

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Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote: ola...@gmail.com wrote: Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run... Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff has hardware support for virtualization.

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Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Odd : The later ones with AMD-V are the ones with hardware virtualization support. By the way, surprisingly, there is no web fronted on the AMD website in order to look for CPU specs, and the piece of software for detecting virtualization ability (on their

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