Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Wednesday June 14 2006 00:16, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... I am sorry, I use FC4 on x86_64 on my home machine, and flash is one thing that is repelled because there is no x86_86 player for Linux...

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Marc A. Volovic: I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 so far fail - I can not seem to be able to

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:20:20AM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Marc A. Volovic: I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 so far

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:12:44AM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: More details please... with xen3 we switched to a single kernel for both dom0 and domU, the -xen kernel. Are you passing 'KERNELS=...-domU' perchance? I wouldn't expect that to work. Duh! I am.

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: Ok, since I hit it in one, here's another gotcha free of charge - with I looked at the docs, thought - hmmm... no xen0 and xenU, weird, let's look at the Makefile... Ah - here they are, the references to xenU and xen0, everything is as it used to be... Hehe. Thanks!

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Henry Ficher
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. Since when has this ever stopped a customer from actually using it in exactly that capacity. I heard a talk at USENIX last

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: More details please... with xen3 we switched to a single kernel for both dom0 and domU, the -xen kernel. Are you passing Unsurprisingly whatsoever, it bloody works. Why do I bother reading Makefiles is beyond me. Attached is the kernel config I am using which works

VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Howdie guys! Last week I installed VMware server for another happy customer. As you may recall from an earlier post, it's a porting farm, the Host is a Centos4, and the guessts are RH7.2, 7.3, RHEL3 and another Centos4. all four VMs mount /home from an NFS export on the host, and all is fine.

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 13 Jun: also rsync pulls files at a crappy 15-20KB per second from the host to the guest, which is a really low speed. no iptables, AFAIK no traffic shaping. what am I missing?! oh, for completeness: VMwareTools are installed, I am working with

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Ira Abramov: Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4, Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production machine should have his orchideae removed. guest is RHEL4, and the speed is frightfully slow. I thought I had an NFS problem but

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Ira Abramov: Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4, Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production machine should have his orchideae removed. I wrote an email saying the same thing (although the word

In defence of Ire [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Ira Abramov: Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4, Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production machine should have his orchideae removed. The Fedora Core line is a non production

Signatures [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single oy. And it continues with numerous other pitiful cries, groans, ejaculations and grimaces! -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiftouch, LTD

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. Since when has this ever stopped a customer from actually using it in exactly that capacity. I heard a talk at USENIX last week[1] where Pixar's VP of Technology

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: Pixar's VP of Technology mentioned that their new movie Cars was rendered on a farm of x86-64 Linux machines running ... you guessed it ... Fedora Core. And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... Speaking of which - whoever among you people is responsible

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Tue, 13 Jun: Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production machine should have his orchideae removed. The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. calm down, will you? it's not a production

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:41:37PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: Speaking of which - whoever among you people is responsible for Xen's build system should be compelled to use FC. That would be the Cambridge folks. They've proven remarkably resistant to attempts to fix it. Cheers, Muli

Re: In defence of Ire [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
Suppose your eyesight is failing you and you are going to a clinic to have your eyes fixed by laser. If they find that you have retinal degradation in your eyes, you deny this and insist upon getting laser - what should an ethical clinic do? Should this answer be any different if the clinic are

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: Marc A. Volovic wrote: I wrote an email saying the same thing (although the word orchideae was missing from it for some reason ;-) and then decided Ira knew better already. Must have been an oversight. I know (by dint of deduction) that you 'havem. The Fedora

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 13 בJune 2006 18:33, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. I heard a talk at USENIX last week[1] where Pixar's VP of Technology mentioned that their new movie Cars

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Gil Freund
On 6/13/06, Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Tue, 13 Jun: However, it still won't explain how the net link between my host and my guest was a puny 20KB/sec, less than half of my cable uplink at home! What NIC do you use? What driver? What does

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... I am sorry, I use FC4 on x86_64 on my home machine, and flash is one thing that is repelled because there is no x86_86 player for Linux... ;-) Speaking of which - whoever among you people is

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Gil Freund, from the post of Tue, 13 Jun: However, it still won't explain how the net link between my host and my guest was a puny 20KB/sec, less than half of my cable uplink at home! What NIC do you use? What driver? What does ethtool say? Is the switch smart enough to report to

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt: I will not defend the Xen build system, but FC is one of the platforms (RHEL is another) that Xen can actually live with. So far I cannot say the same about, say, SuSE (never heard of anyone who managed to have a working network in a SuSE domU - has anyone here made

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:16:44AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: I will not defend the Xen build system, but FC is one of the platforms (RHEL is another) that Xen can actually live with. So far I cannot say the same about, say, SuSE (never heard of anyone who managed to have a working network

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Marc A. Volovic: I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 so far fail - I can not seem to be able to build a xenU kernel correctly.