Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >On Apr 19, 2013 10:24 PM, "Jarry" <mr.ja...@gmail.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 and what exists is quite outdated (i.e. Gentoo-wiki).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 >> -- > >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. > >Rgds, >--
Pandu. Do you still use xend on your Xen hosts? I thought that was deprecated? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
