Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread J.Witvliet
Just like xen, that supports nested virtualization... - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Brian Millett [mailto:bmill...@gmail.com] Verzonden: Friday, February 15, 2013 03:31 PM W. Europe Standard Time Aan: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Onderwerp: Re: ESXi on KVM On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:13

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.02.2013 11:23, schrieb Gordan Bobic: > Why on earth would you want to stack two layers of virtualization? Is one > virtualization layer not slow enough for > you? to put a complex infrastructure "as it is" in a deploayable and saveable image and test even VMotion/HA and network migrations

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 15.02.2013 06:13, schrieb Jamie Bohr: > ESXi cannot be installed under KVM. ESXi and KVM are both hypervisors > and must be running on bare metal not entirely true google for "EPT nested virtualization" with VMware it is no problem installing ESXi x96_64 on VMware Workstation and install a

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Brian Millett
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:13:57 -0700 Jamie Bohr wrote: > ESXi cannot be installed under KVM. ESXi and KVM are both hypervisors and > must be running on bare metal. > Sorry, but that is incorrect. http://www.vcritical.com/2011/07/vmware-vsphere-can-virtualize-itself/ -- Brian Millett "I can't

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 14/02/2013 21:14, Min Wang wrote: Hi has anyone successfully installed ESXi ( tried version) on the Fedora/Centos KVM? If so, what's the good the processor model? tried serveral combinatnion of cpu model and ESX 3.5 and 5.1 ( trial version) without success (1) tried ESX Sever 3i (3.5.0) bu

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 14.02.2013 22:14, schrieb Min Wang: > has anyone successfully installed ESXi ( tried version) on the Fedora/Centos > KVM? > If so, what's the good the processor model? forget it it was even hard on VMware Workstation to do this until they started to support it as target-OS signature.asc

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Darton Williams
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Min Wang wrote: > Hi > > has anyone successfully installed ESXi ( tried version) on the > Fedora/Centos KVM? > > If so, what's the good the processor model? > > tried serveral combinatnion of cpu model and ESX 3.5 and 5.1 ( trial > version) without success > > (1)

Re: ESXi on KVM

2013-02-15 Thread Jamie Bohr
ESXi cannot be installed under KVM. ESXi and KVM are both hypervisors and must be running on bare metal. Sorry, what you are trying to do is not possible. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Min Wang wrote: > Hi > > has anyone successfully installed ESXi ( tried version) on the > Fedora/Centos KV

ESXi on KVM

2013-02-14 Thread Min Wang
Hi has anyone successfully installed ESXi ( tried version) on the Fedora/Centos KVM? If so, what's the good the processor model? tried serveral combinatnion of cpu model and ESX 3.5 and 5.1 ( trial version) without success (1) tried ESX Sever 3i (3.5.0) build-207095 ( with pentinumpro, an