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

[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.
>
> Can someone point me to some recent/decent docs on best practices for
> this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would be ok
> too.
>
> Things like vmware-tools installation (is open-vm-tools good enough
> nowadays?), time syncing, snapshots/backups, etc is what I'm looking for.

May I join the club? I have been running a few Gentoo-VMs
for some time, but I'm still quite new to this "ESXi-world".
But one I know for sure is that hypervisor-virtualization
is much more complex than OS-virtualization (i.e. VServer
or OpenVZ which I have used previously).

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
shutdown of Gentoo-VMs from ESXi I use ssh-script or
hibernation.

Snapshots are very well covered by esxi and for backup I use
ghetto-vcb tool (script). It tried backup&restore on one
of my running Gentoo-VM servers and it works like charm.

For VM-hardware I used (iirc) CentOS template, because
with "other linux 64b" I did not get hw-options I wanted
to use (LSI-Logic Parallel SCSI controller, and VMXNET3
network adapter).

Unfortunatelly there is not a lot info about Gentoo & ESXi
and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki). But
I used guidelines for general linux-VM, and I consulted
problems on VMware community web-page...

Jarry
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