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On Apr 19, 2013 11:14 PM, "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:i |
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> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On 19-Apr-13 16:21, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> >> Previously I had asked for some help with a preconfigured image, but |
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>> >> decided against that, and have been playing and reading. |
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>> >> I'm ready to get down to brass tacks with the ultimate goal of |
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getting a |
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>> >> new gentoo vm up and running on my esxi host this weekend. |
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>> >> Can someone point me to some recent/decent docs on best practices for |
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>> >> this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would be |
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ok |
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>> >> too. |
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>> >> Things like vmware-tools installation (is open-vm-tools good enough |
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>> >> nowadays?), time syncing, snapshots/backups, etc is what I'm looking |
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for. |
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>> > May I join the club? I have been running a few Gentoo-VMs |
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>> > for some time, but I'm still quite new to this "ESXi-world". |
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>> > But one I know for sure is that hypervisor-virtualization |
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>> > is much more complex than OS-virtualization (i.e. VServer |
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>> > or OpenVZ which I have used previously). |
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>> > vmware-tools: I have tested open-vm-tools but now I'm running |
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>> > my VMs without them because every kernel upgrade was a real |
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>> > pain in a**. And trully I did not see any benefit in running |
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>> > vm-tools (maybe it would be different on desktop). For |
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>> > shutdown of Gentoo-VMs from ESXi I use ssh-script or |
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>> > hibernation. |
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>> > Snapshots are very well covered by esxi and for backup I use |
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>> > ghetto-vcb tool (script). It tried backup&restore on one |
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>> > of my running Gentoo-VM servers and it works like charm. |
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>> > For VM-hardware I used (iirc) CentOS template, because |
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>> > with "other linux 64b" I did not get hw-options I wanted |
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>> > to use (LSI-Logic Parallel SCSI controller, and VMXNET3 |
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>> > network adapter). |
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>> > Unfortunatelly there is not a lot info about Gentoo & ESXi |
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>> > and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki). But |
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>> > I used guidelines for general linux-VM, and I consulted |
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>> > problems on VMware community web-page... |
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>> > Jarry |
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>> > -- |
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>> Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if |
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I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it runs |
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near-natively. |
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>> Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly. |
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>> Do a Google search for "gentoo xenserver" and if you find pages written |
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by me, those are my experiences running Gentoo on top of XenServer, |
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successfully. |
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>> Rgds, |
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> Pandu. |
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> Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts? |
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> I thought that was deprecated? |
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Ah, sorry. What I meant was xstools daemon. It's necessary to properly |
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monitor Linux PV guests on XenServer. |
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It's apparently a simple shell script, which commits suicide when it can't |
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determine what Linux distro it's running in. Need to add several lines of |
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code within the script to enable it to recognize Gentoo and not commit |
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suicide. |
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XenCenter/CloudStack will.afterwards detect that the machine is running |
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Gentoo. Won't affect anything, but better than it reporting "unknown Linux" |
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:-) |
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Rgds, |
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