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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 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 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 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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Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if I |
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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 by |
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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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