Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/3/11 Danny Lieberman : > Amos > I'm using slicehost for a few projects and I'm extremely satisfied. Response > time from Israel is outstanding - for Web and ssh. They setup a new slice in > minutes and their customer service is rackspace quality Thanks for the feedback. I think my boss also h

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-10 Thread Danny Lieberman
Amos I'm using slicehost for a few projects and I'm extremely satisfied. Response time from Israel is outstanding - for Web and ssh. They setup a new slice in minutes and their customer service is rackspace quality Danny -- Danny Lieberman

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/3/5 Ira Abramov : > I've been waiting for KVM to hit the prime-time for a while, I remember > Mulix told me a year ago it's "Xen done the right way" and it should be I'm waiting for it to - but in the meantime I still need to Get Things Done so I stick to whatever comes pre-packaged and suppo

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 06:12, Ira Abramov wrote: > None give KVM/Qumranet, OpenVZ and the rest even the tiniest mention. > > know anyone using it in production at least, and are they professionally > happy with it? We use both KVM and OpenVZ. We are happy with OpenVZ but not so much with KV

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
27;s SolidICE sounds pretty sweet "on paper". Anyone using it in production? their site is not very detailed, there's no trial version that I can find from either them or from RHAT. Also, So far all posts and articles I saw comparing hypervisors picked Citrix against VMware, occas

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Lior Okman
Ira Abramov wrote: I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for

Re: Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 4 בMarch 2009, Ira Abramov wrote: > This is what I need for the clients. Both are good at windows, only > starting out in Linux. Both need something that's not too techie and CLI to > manage. ESXi has been the automatic no-brainer choice, but with > XenServer being free I'll need to a

Citrix vs. VMware, Users' experience?

2009-03-04 Thread Ira Abramov
I want to make life easy for two clients of mine who want to go virtual, but are set against MS as host (Not my work, I swear! :) Citrix XenServer is free, in case you missed it: http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 ESXi has been free for a while as well: https

Re: VMware problems.

2008-12-08 Thread Noam Rathaus
Aharon, I have had a few successful runs with vmware (why not switch to VirtualBox?) by using the vmware-any-any package available from here: http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/ http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update115.tar.gz appears to be the latest, but it

VMware problems.

2008-12-08 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
Hi. I just installed VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.rpm When I run vmplayer, I get the message: C header files matching your running kernel were not found. kernel headers for version 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 were not found. I have the following installed: rpm -q -a | grep -i kernel kernel

Re: Question about VMWare ESX and standard PC

2007-09-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi poeple, > > > > I'm thinking to install VMWare ESX 3.0 at my house for some testings > > few ideas of mine. > > > > As you may know, ESX can be installed on IDE/SATA drive, but you > > cannot create VM's

Re: Question about VMWare ESX and standard PC

2007-09-08 Thread Jacob Broido
, Hetz Ben Hamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi poeple, > > I'm thinking to install VMWare ESX 3.0 at my house for some testings > few ideas of mine. > > As you may know, ESX can be installed on IDE/SATA drive, but you > cannot create VM's nor create VMFS partiti

Question about VMWare ESX and standard PC

2007-09-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi poeple, I'm thinking to install VMWare ESX 3.0 at my house for some testings few ideas of mine. As you may know, ESX can be installed on IDE/SATA drive, but you cannot create VM's nor create VMFS partitions unless your hard disk is SCSI one. At first, I thought about plugging some

Re: VMWare and native Windows XP

2007-04-08 Thread Valery Reznic
> > to the initrd can solve the problem. > > > > Is it a way to achive same on Windows, i.e boot > > windows, which was installed "native" under VMWare > ? > > > > Valery > > > > See this page for SCSI Disk Drivers > http://www

Re: VMWare and native Windows XP

2007-04-07 Thread Gadi Cohen
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_disks8.html Have fun :) Valery Reznic wrote: > Good day. > > I have dual-boot computer with Linux on one partition > (sda1) and WinXP on the other (sda2). > > Linux has VMware installed. > (VMware-server-1.0.2-39867) > >

Re: VMWare and native Windows XP

2007-04-06 Thread Maxim Veksler
On 4/5/07, Valery Reznic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good day. I have dual-boot computer with Linux on one partition (sda1) and WinXP on the other (sda2). Linux has VMware installed. (VMware-server-1.0.2-39867) Now, I want boot into Linux, and from VMware run windows, installed in th

VMWare and native Windows XP

2007-04-05 Thread Valery Reznic
Good day. I have dual-boot computer with Linux on one partition (sda1) and WinXP on the other (sda2). Linux has VMware installed. (VMware-server-1.0.2-39867) Now, I want boot into Linux, and from VMware run windows, installed in the sda2. VMware-server allows specify whole disk or partition to

Re: Vmware server 1.0.1 supports webcam?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 09/02/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: download the software, get a 30-days evaluation license, and see if this actually solves the problem. better then to pay up-front and then fount it does not help you. Yes, of course I'll test it first - but if I find that it helps me it will s

Re: Vmware server 1.0.1 supports webcam?

2007-02-08 Thread guy keren
download the software, get a 30-days evaluation license, and see if this actually solves the problem. better then to pay up-front and then fount it does not help you. --guy Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Short question - do I have to buy VMware Workstation 5 in order to make Windows XP Pro

Vmware server 1.0.1 supports webcam?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Short question - do I have to buy VMware Workstation 5 in order to make Windows XP Pro work with Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 webcam? Details: I installed Windows XP Pro without a hitch on VMware Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on top of Debian Etch (kernel 2.6.18-3-k7) and it works pretty well

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
egarding desktop cpu's also affected by this - most cpu's today (desktop,mobile) have frequency scaling. Note, this issue is not limited to VMware only, AFAIK Microsoft VirtualPC/Server is also affected by this. On 1/20/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob Broido w

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: > Are you using Vmware on Intel based laptop? I read the relevant passage. I (VMWare workstation hosted on Linux) am running it on a laptop with an Intel chip, but the other people (VMWare Server hosted on Windows XP) run it on a desktop. The problem happens both here and th

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
Are you using Vmware on Intel based laptop? On 1/20/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to > Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. > > VMware 6 has ex

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: > Hi, > The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to > Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. > > VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing capabilities and features > included into it, and these cannot be disabled in be

Re: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Broido
Hi, The reason you experience slowdown in Vmware 6 (beta) as compared to Vmware 5.x is because as it names suggest - a beta. VMware 6 has extra debugging&tracing capabilities and features included into it, and these cannot be disabled in beta release. Actually the software tells you this

RE: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-19 Thread Oded Arbel
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:42 +0200, Nati CT wrote: > VM6 is designed to use Intel's VT or AMD-V (which P4 doesn't have). > I think that's why you suffer from bad performance. So, if I want to get any decent performance with VMWare on a CPU with no hardware virtualization, I s

RE: My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-19 Thread Nati CT
VM6 is designed to use Intel's VT or AMD-V (which P4 doesn't have). I think that's why you suffer from bad performance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hetz Ben Hamo Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:35 PM To: Linux-IL Subje

My VMWare 6 (beta) experience

2007-01-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I wanted to share my experience with VMWare 6 beta with you people.. Machine: Pentium 4 2.80Ghz, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk, CentOS 4.4 + updates. VMWare: Version 6 (Workstation) Build 36983. VMWare 6 has some really nice features when it comes to memory support (up to 3.5GB), USB 2.0 support

Re: vmware: guest os access to block device

2007-01-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Erez D wrote: > hi > > i changed from running xp. to vmware with xp as a guest os, and edgy > (ubuntu 6.10 linux) as host. > i want to access the ntfs partitions from my guest os, > i tried to configure vmware, but was not able to, it just didn't let > me use nor /dev/

Re: vmware: guest os access to block device

2007-01-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:22 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > I assume that NTFS sits on the guest machine, right? s/guest machine/host machine/g Sigh... Not my day. - Gilboa = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the wo

Re: vmware: guest os access to block device

2007-01-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:02 +0200, Erez D wrote: > hi > > i changed from running xp. to vmware with xp as a guest os, and edgy > (ubuntu 6.10 linux) as host. > i want to access the ntfs partitions from my guest os, > i tried to configure vmware, but was not able to, it just d

vmware: guest os access to block device

2007-01-08 Thread Erez D
hi i changed from running xp. to vmware with xp as a guest os, and edgy (ubuntu 6.10 linux) as host. i want to access the ntfs partitions from my guest os, i tried to configure vmware, but was not able to, it just didn't let me use nor /dev/sda neither /dev/sda1 as either disk, plainDisk,

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread Shachar Shemesh
guy keren wrote: > why are you trying to use the server edition anyway, and not a > workstation edition? Because VMWare Server is free (as in beer), while VMWare Workstation costs $189. > did you verify that the server edition is supposed > to work on more then a limited set of d

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread Moshe Leibovitch
On 03/01/2007 12:23, Amos Shapira wrote: On 03/01/07, *guy keren* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: just a silly question - what is 'VMware 1.0.1'? I meant "vmware server 1.0.1". I'm mostly following the ivery simple instr

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just a silly question - what is 'VMware 1.0.1'? I meant "vmware server 1.0.1". I'm mostly following the ivery simple instructions in http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_vmware_server_howto VMware has ma

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Lior Okman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: VMWare has its own copies of most of the shared objects under (on your computer) /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/ . You could try modifying the /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh shellscript

Re: vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-03 Thread guy keren
just a silly question - what is 'VMware 1.0.1'? VMware has many products - most of them have higher current version numbers. other then that - this sounds like a compiler versions mismatch to me - for some reason, your vmware-thingy is taking gnome libraries from your system, instead

vmware doesn't find libgnomevfs module?

2007-01-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've finally got around to try vmware on my home desktop. My setup: Debian Etch on AMD Athlon 2500 (Barton?) with 1.2 Gb RAM. VMware 1.0.1 (just downloaded from vmware.com) vmware-console installed as .deb file converted using alien Gnome desktop (2.14) gcc 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, an

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jacob Broido wrote: > 1)Shutdown the vm > 2) vmware-vdiskmanager -x > 3) boot the VM 3.5) Make a VMWare snapshot, so that if step 4 goes wrong, you'll still be ok. > 4) Resize the partition & filesystems using standard linux tools... > (parted,etc...) booted from a li

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
1)Shutdown the vm 2) vmware-vdiskmanager -x 3) boot the VM 4) Resize the partition & filesystems using standard linux tools... (parted,etc...) Voila. On 10/26/06, Jacob Broido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, Inorder to answer you, I need some more inputs from you. 1) Which

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
1)Shutdown the vm2) vmware-vdiskmanager   -x 3) boot the VM4) Resize the partition & filesystems using standard linux tools... (parted,etc...)Voila. On 10/26/06, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Ben-Nes wrote:> Hello,>> I need to move Debian from a Vmware with

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Michael Ben-Nes wrote: > Hello, > > I need to move Debian from a Vmware with 1GB space to a new one with 2GB. > What is the easiest way to achieve exact copy ? Same as between hard disks, I guess. Connect the new hard disk to the existing machine. Create the partition layout you wa

Re: Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Jacob Broido
Hey,Inorder to answer you, I need some more inputs from you.1) Which product of Vmware are you talking about? Is it ESX ? or Workstation,GSX,Server?2) You've mentioned 1GB->2GB... Do you want to extend existing VM of 1GB to span accross 2GB ? Is it acceptable for you to perform  an

Moving OS from one Vmware to another

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hello,I need to move Debian from a Vmware with 1GB space to a new one with 2GB.What is the easiest way to achieve exact copy ?Thanks,Miki -- --Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and  Director.http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net.Cellular: 054

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-30 Thread Erez D
how about user-mode-linux, isn't it better for this perpose (i.e. as a sandbox) ?On 8/29/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:37:13PM +0300, Gil Freund wrote:> >Yes, but that makes the domU trusted (an attacker with root access ot > >the domU can easily take dow

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:37:13PM +0300, Gil Freund wrote: > >Yes, but that makes the domU trusted (an attacker with root access ot > >the domU can easily take down the entire machine - unless you have an > >isolation capable IOMMU) > > Can you elaborate a little more? Does this mean that if the

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Gil Freund
t/DomU? Is this true for any hardware access, or for NICs only? > VMware will only allow the usage of the NIC as bridge (albeit, > without an IP address). Xen can do this too, of course. Xen can do both, which is what I like about it. I am skeptical about running Windows 2003 as DomU wit

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Gil Freund
On 8/29/06, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was asked about putting a firewall in Virtual Server environment. You may be interested in this VMware appliance[1,2] This means it's doable. My concern is &

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was asked about putting a firewall in Virtual Server environment. You may be interested in this VMware appliance[1,2] http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/245 - a winning entry (3rd prize) to the VMware Ultimat

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:36:27AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Solution: RTFM ethtool for the command line option to disable hardware > offloading of checksum calculation. ethtool -K ethN tx off > Muli, > This seems to me like a conceptual bug in the way Xen determines which > is the true de

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:17:53AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >> If you do set it up like that (and I did), please be sure to turn off >> hardware checksum generation for TCP/IP, or you'll have trouble >> connecting from the Xen machines that are behind the firew

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:17:53AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > >> If you do set it up like that (and I did), please be sure to turn off >> hardware checksum generation for TCP/IP, or you'll have trouble >> connecting from the Xen machines that are behind the firew

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:17:53AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > If you do set it up like that (and I did), please be sure to turn off > hardware checksum generation for TCP/IP, or you'll have trouble > connecting from the Xen machines that are behind the firewall to the > internet There were s

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
the domU can easily take down the entire machine - unless you have an isolation capable IOMMU) > VMware will only allow the usage of the NIC as bridge (albeit, > without an IP address). Xen can do this too, of course. Cheers, Muli =

Re: Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-28 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gil Freund wrote: > Hi, > > I was asked about putting a firewall in Virtual Server environment. > As far as I can tell, XEN will allow me to assign a NIC as a PCI > desvice to a DomU. VMware will only allow the usage of the NIC as > bridge (albeit, without an IP address). Huh?

Virtual firewalls (Xen/VMware)

2006-08-28 Thread Gil Freund
Hi, I was asked about putting a firewall in Virtual Server environment. As far as I can tell, XEN will allow me to assign a NIC as a PCI desvice to a DomU. VMware will only allow the usage of the NIC as bridge (albeit, without an IP address). My worries: 1. Will a DoS on the firewall "lea

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Wednesday June 14 2006 00:16, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > "Marc A. Volovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... > > I am sorry, I use FC4 on x86_64 on my home machine, and flash is one > thing that is repelled because there is no x86_86 player for

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > More details please... with xen3 we switched to a single kernel for > both dom0 and domU, the -xen kernel. Are you passing Unsurprisingly whatsoever, it bloody works. Why do I bother reading Makefiles is beyond me. Attached is the kernel config I am using which works qu

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-14 Thread Henry Ficher
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. Since when has this ever stopped a customer from actually using it in exactly that capacity. I heard a talk at USENIX last wee

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > Ok, since I hit it in one, here's another gotcha free of charge - with I looked at the docs, thought - "hmmm... no xen0 and xenU, weird, let's look at the Makefile... Ah - here they are, the references to xenU and xen0, everything is as it used to be..." Hehe. Thanks! >

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:12:44AM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > > > More details please... with xen3 we switched to a single kernel for > > both dom0 and domU, the -xen kernel. Are you passing > > 'KERNELS=...-domU' perchance? I wouldn't expect that to work. > > Duh! I

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:20:20AM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > Quoth Marc A. Volovic: > > > I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. > > The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). > > That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 s

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Marc A. Volovic: I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 so far fail - I can not seem to be able to buil

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Marc A. Volovic: > I use Xen with Debian (woody, sarge and etch) with not problem whatsoever. > The dom0 is etch, domUs are a mix, all very very small (sub 60MB). That is - xen 2.4. All my attempts to build xen 3 so far fail - I can not seem to be able to build a xenU kernel correctly. Grrr

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:16:44AM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I will not defend the Xen build system, but FC is one of the platforms > (RHEL is another) that Xen can actually live with. So far I cannot say > the same about, say, SuSE (never heard of anyone who managed to have a > working netw

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Oleg Goldshmidt: > I will not defend the Xen build system, but FC is one of the platforms > (RHEL is another) that Xen can actually live with. So far I cannot say > the same about, say, SuSE (never heard of anyone who managed to have a > working network in a SuSE domU - has anyone here made

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
an MII API either. and no switch, no cables. it's all trickery in the VMware application. you really should install it once to know what the fuss is about :) -- Very very available Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ = To

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Marc A. Volovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... I am sorry, I use FC4 on x86_64 on my home machine, and flash is one thing that is repelled because there is no x86_86 player for Linux... ;-) > Speaking of which - whoever among you people is

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Gil Freund
? What does ethtool say? Is the switch smart enough to report to report error? Might seem self evident, but did you check different cables or ports? the solution was of course to make-do with a Q&D solution, being mkisofs and mounting it via the VMWARE CD device. still it didn't solve

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 13 בJune 2006 18:33, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. > I heard a talk at USENIX last week[1] where Pixar's VP of Technology > mentioned that their new movie

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: > Marc A. Volovic wrote: > > I wrote an email saying the same thing (although the word "orchideae" > was missing from it for some reason ;-) and then decided Ira knew better > already. Must have been an oversight. I know (by dint of deduction) that you 'havem. > The Fe

Re: In defence of Ire [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Omer Zak
Suppose your eyesight is failing you and you are going to a clinic to have your eyes fixed by laser. If they find that you have retinal degradation in your eyes, you deny this and insist upon getting laser - what should an ethical clinic do? Should this answer be any different if the clinic are don

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:41:37PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > Speaking of which - whoever among you people is responsible for Xen's build > system should be compelled to use FC. That would be the Cambridge folks. They've proven remarkably resistant to attempts to fix it. Cheers, Muli =

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
le uplink at home! the solution was of course to make-do with a Q&D solution, being mkisofs and mounting it via the VMWARE CD device. still it didn't solve the fact that other things had to be NFS-accessable. The solution was amazingly simple. the client gave me two dual-Xeons to ins

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Muli Ben-Yehuda: > Pixar's VP of Technology mentioned that their new movie "Cars" was > rendered on a farm of x86-64 Linux machines running ... you guessed it > ... Fedora Core. And that goes to show that flash attracts flash :-)... Speaking of which - whoever among you people is responsib

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:00:39PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > The Fedora Core line is a non production distribution *by design*. Since when has this ever stopped a customer from actually using it in exactly that capacity. I heard a talk at USENIX last week[1] where Pixar's VP of Technology

Signatures [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: > The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single "oy." And it continues with numerous other pitiful cries, groans, ejaculations and grimaces! -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Swiftouch, LTD

In defence of Ire [was: Re: VMware guest net problems?]

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Quoth Gilad Ben-Yossef: > Marc A. Volovic wrote: > >Quoth Ira Abramov: > >>Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4, > >Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production > >machine should have his orchideae removed. > The Fedora Core line is a non

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Marc A. Volovic wrote: Quoth Ira Abramov: Today I installed a similar setup on a faster machine, host is FC4, Not that I am casting the first stone, but anyone using FC as a production machine should have his orchideae removed. I wrote an email saying the same thing (although the word "o

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Marc A. Volovic
pull? Http pull? etc. Also - what is the hardware diff between old slow host and new fast host? Should not cause such a drastic effect, but go figure. Just for the heck of it, push large ICMP packets (i.e. ping -s, aka ping of death). I rather suspect the memory bus and its effect on vmware (esp

Re: VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Ira Abramov, from the post of Tue, 13 Jun: > > also rsync pulls files at a crappy 15-20KB per second from the host to > the guest, which is a really low speed. > > no iptables, AFAIK no traffic shaping. what am I missing?! oh, for completeness: VMwareTools are installed, I am working wit

VMware guest net problems?

2006-06-13 Thread Ira Abramov
Howdie guys! Last week I installed VMware server for another happy customer. As you may recall from an earlier post, it's a porting farm, the Host is a Centos4, and the guessts are RH7.2, 7.3, RHEL3 and another Centos4. all four VMs mount /home from an NFS export on the host, and all is

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you reported this problem on the Kopete bugzilla? Actually no, but browsing through their site I was reminded that they actually take the MSN code from AMSN, which is much easier to install (and might even be the program I confused with Kope

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's only an unstable alpha driver for my webcam in Linux, which is When I bought my webcam (Logitech Pro 4000) I made sure it's supported on Linux :) > mostly unusable. Since VMware version 5, there is support for iso

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 05:38, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone here had positive experience running Windows version > of Skype or MSN massenger under Windows-XP/VMware/Linux(debian)? > > Skype is the only VoIP for Linux I managed to use throught my ADSL &g

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-07 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi There's only an unstable alpha driver for my webcam in Linux, which is mostly unusable.  Since VMware version 5, there is support for isochronous USB devices, and since then, my webcam works flawlessly on Messenger under Windows XP.  I'm running Mandriva Linux but I can't

Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone here had positive experience running Windows version of Skype or MSN massenger under Windows-XP/VMware/Linux(debian)? Skype is the only VoIP for Linux I managed to use throught my ADSL router NAT and MSN Massenger on Win98 is the only application I managed to use for webcam

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:39:53AM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > I doubt that we'll see VT/Pacifica going into full swing before 07. > (Especially on AMDs, as AMD just started to port Xen to support > Pacifica) Xen includes SVM support. You need SVM HW which is not generally available yet, but re

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
st x86/64bit CPU release (Opteron) and yet, I doubt that 10% of the world is 64bit based. I doubt that we'll see VT/Pacifica going into full swing before 07. (Especially on AMDs, as AMD just started to port Xen to support Pacifica) > > > >From my short experience, Xen is a quite com

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
ntel x86 architecture is notoriously hard to virtualize, because of stupid architectural decisions (e.g., doing some priviledged things in a non-privileged mode does not trap, but rather fails silently). VMWare gets around this by dynamically rewriting the executing code (with the obvious p

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: VMware for free": > That's wrong, people have been able to buy VT enabled processos. Even > if they are scarce, pretty soon (weeks, a few months at most) they'll > be available everywhere. For the clueless am

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
will > release the 'enabled' version of their Core with VT enabled. That's wrong, people have been able to buy VT enabled processos. Even if they are scarce, pretty soon (weeks, a few months at most) they'll be available everywhere. > >From my short experience, Xen i

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
> Last time I checked, with no hardware VT extensions, Xen cannot run > Windows. > Am I wrong? No, Xen does require VT (or AMD's SVM) to run Windows. But VT enabled processors are now available, and SVM will be available soon. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.l

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, I read a bit more. They won't release the GSX product as a freeware, but actually will release something which will be called "VMWare Server" which is something quite similar to GSX. > > So? free is not open. Xen is both (and yes, it can run Windows). I > > wish VM

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > So? free is not open.Xen is both (and yes, it can run Windows). I > > wish VMWare would open up the code under a GPL compatible, then we > > could really have fun :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Muli > > Last time

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:23 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > VMWare next week plans to give away VMWare (GSX version, not the WS > > or ESX). > > So? free is not open. Xen is both

Re: VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > > VMWare next week plans to give away VMWare (GSX version, not the WS > or ESX). So? free is not open. Xen is both (and yes, it can run Windows). I wish VMWare would open up the code under a GPL compatible, t

VMware for free

2006-02-03 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, VMWare next week plans to give away VMWare (GSX version, not the WS or ESX). Link: http://news.com.com/VMware+to+make+server+product+free/2100-1012_3-6034615.html?tag=nefd.top Thanks, Hetz To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-06 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:21:09AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > It's also a "test bed" for new ideas in emulations, just few weeks > ago, Fabrice (the genius guy who created QEMU and also wrote FFMPEG > that almost every Linux and other OS's media player uses these days) > has committed an intere

Re: vmware player images and gpl

2006-01-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 6 בJanuary 2006 00:21, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Emulation of up to 255 X86 processors for your guest OS. I don't know > any OS's that support such a number of CPU's,... Well, here is one: Linux http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/ Up to 512 processors (and there's a single experim

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