Hiya, After banging my head against a brick wall for some weeks waiting for a VMware kernel module and not wanting to roll my own, I've come to the realisation that while VMware is a nice solution, it's not supported enough within Ubuntu for me to roll it out any longer.
Since the Ubuntu preferred solution is kvm, I thought I'd try my hand at installing/trialling/deploying that. Using the instructions at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM is a great start, but I come unstuck at "How to check if your CPU supports hardware virtualisation" Suffice to say that it doesn't. Yes, I could buy new hardware and that is an option for future deployments, but not for existing installations. There are cryptic references to kqemu scattered through the 'net and the package description for kvm provides hints as well, but it then goes on to recommend that you don't use kvm, but rather use qemu. I've seen references to kvm using kqemu to "speed things up", but I'm hazy on the details. I've read about virtualbox and several other solutions, but I'd rather not tread down yet another dead end to then be told "Well, you should have chosen kvm." So, as a current VMware user, wanting to deploy and test virtual machines both in my Ubuntu development environment and with clients running ubuntu-server, what are my options, what will be properly supported and what can I expect when a new kernel update comes along? I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but I've been unable to locate something that solves this in the Ubuntu way, rather than start with instructions like: 1. Download the source tar ball from xyz.com 2. Install the dev packages 3. ./configure && make && sudo make install 4. Profit! If I wanted to do that, then I might as well run Gentoo - not a preferred approach. In case you're wondering, I'm also not interested in solutions that start with: 1. Change your sources.list to include xyz.com 2. apt-get update, apt-get install magic 3. Profit! It is possible that Ubuntu does not yet include what I'm seeking, but the way soren tells it, virtualisation is everywhere :) Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06" - E115°50'39" (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
