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

[Jarry]

On 19-Apr-13 17:52, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> Well, for me, XenServer-based virtualization is very very simple. And if
> I compile the kernel with all Xen PV (paravirtualized) 'FrontEnds', it
> runs near-natively.
>
> Only the xend daemon need some 'tweaking' to run properly.
>
> Do a Google search for "gentoo xenserver" and if you find pages written
> by me, those are my experiences running Gentoo on top of XenServer,
> successfully.

What I had in mind is administration of hypervisor itself.
ESXi is feature-rich product, and to handle all its possibilities
(i.e. vMotion, vShield, HA, FT, vCenter, DRS/DPM, FW, etc) one have
to spend quite long time by studying and the learning curve is
very steep (again, I'm comparing with VServer or OpenVZ/Virtuozzo,
I do not know XenServer).

Deploying Gentoo-guest (or "VM" / "DomU" as they call it) is
actually very easy. And after reading your wiki-page I'd say
it is easier on ESXi then on XenServer, because there is actually
no difference between installing Gentoo on VM, or real hardware
(no need for special compile options or special device-files,
no limit on boot-loader, etc.).

Jarry
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