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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 |
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>for |
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>>> this? Ideally gentoo related, but just general linux related would |
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>be ok |
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>>> too. |
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>>> |
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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 |
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>if I |
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>compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it |
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>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 |
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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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>-- |
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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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Joost |
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