Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2014-02-01 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-19 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real pain in a**. Jarry - can you elaborate on this? I'm trying to see why updating the kernel would be a problem, as

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-19 11:22 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real pain in a**. And trully I did not see any benefit in running vm-tools (maybe it would be different on desktop). For

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sat, April 20, 2013 18:06, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:i SNIPPED Pandu. Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts? I thought that was deprecated? Ah, sorry. What I meant was xstools daemon. It's necessary to properly monitor Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:i Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 20, 2013 9:31 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Fri, April 19, 2013 18:42, Jarry wrote: On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds',

[gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend. Can someone point me to

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of getting a new gentoo vm up and

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Jarry
On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote: Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs near-natively. Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly. Do a Google search for gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-19 Thread Kvothe Tech
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but decided against that, and have been playing and reading. I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of