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

[J. Roeleveld]

Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote:

>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and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki).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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I would suggest installing the vmaare tools when the VM is running on a VMWare server.

You get better driver performance and the management tools actually work.

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