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Am 28.06.2010 08:19, schrieb waltdnes@××××××××.org: |
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> I have a 4-core Intel i3 (/proc/cpuinfo dump below) running 64 bit |
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> Gentoo. I want to try hosting 32-bit Gentoo and also OS/2 Warp 4 on it. |
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> What are people's experiences with different VM environments? Google |
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> searching turns up a lot of out-of-date blogs/wikis. My CPU... |
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> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz |
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I use vmware-server and also kvm for VMs. |
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Both work. |
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vmware: |
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I don't really like the web-gui, it sometimes is buggy and unreliable, |
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has ssl-issues and you need a specific firefox-plugin to access the |
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console of the VMs. It brings its own tomcat-server etc., somehow not as |
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minimalistic as we gentoo-users like things ... |
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I also don't like the need to always log into that gui as I am |
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single-user here anyway. Might be some small hack in PAM or so, never |
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researched that. |
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Aside from these issues vmware runs fine, and I like the fact that I am |
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able to connect 2 very similar USB-serial-converters to one VM, |
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something that KVM is not yet able to support AFAIK (I need them for my |
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Suunto heart-rate-monitor and GPS, both cables have the same USB-id ...). |
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This is the main reason why I haven't yet fully migrated my own VMs to ... |
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KVM: |
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It feels (and is) faster. Less overhead. |
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I really appreciate the fact that it is in the kernel, you just enable |
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it once and it is there ... |
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Very little overhead, VMs feel fast and snappy. |
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For gui I use virt-manager on top of libvirt, nice feature to have all |
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your VMs at hand in one small gnome-applet ... (it should be possible to |
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also control vmware-servers with libvirt, but this has been unreliable |
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for me). |
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I like the virtio-drivers for block- and network-devices. Fast and direct. |
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The network-setup for kvm is somewhat more complicated at first, all |
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that bridging and qtap and stuff, vmware does hide that more from you or |
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somehow makes it easier to administer (my experience ... it is very |
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likely that I don't know things ...). |
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In general both systems work fine, I use vmware out of historical |
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reasons (KVM wasn't there or as ready when I started using VMs) and KVM |
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as it seems to grow up and become a really powerful and open alternative. |
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In fact it is already ... |
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Stefan |
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