Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I had not thought of that. > > However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a > client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info > on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the > network on it. Thus, I don

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > My initial question was geared toward getting generic advice and if > someone else was successful getting FC13 installed as a KVM VM. > > Trying to install FC13 x64 as a VM on a FC12 (AMD) server with a running > kernel of 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 and KVM version > qemu-kvm

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
Thank you for letting me know, I will track down any error messages and resubmit to the list. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 > Jamie Bohr wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? > If > > so

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:37:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for me unless > I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back > to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. The native console uses VNC as well, but has a some

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I had not thought of that. However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the network on it. Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for m

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:31 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at > 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but > unusable. I never use the emulated video console at all once I have the machine installed. If I need a

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Dale J. Chatham
I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but unusable. When I ran vmware the performance was quite good. Are there any obvious gotchas, is there a better pick than KVM or should I just go back to vmware server?

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:56:13 -0600 Jamie Bohr wrote: > Has anyone successfully installed FC13 (or FC12) as a VM on KVM server? If > so, was there something special you did to make it work? I've installed fedora versions as KVMs from f8 through f13 without any problems using the DVD iso images as

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Jamie Bohr
hu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Jamie Bohr wrote: > > I have an FC12 device running KVM and would like to install FC13 as a > > VM. I am having lot of problems from the installer failing when > > packages start to install to nearly all the way through pa

Re: FC13 as a VM

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jamie Bohr wrote: > I have an FC12 device running KVM and would like to install FC13 as a > VM. I am having lot of problems from the installer failing when > packages start to install to nearly all the way through package > installation. I have disabled "ACPI" and a

FC13 as a VM

2010-06-09 Thread Jamie Bohr
I have an FC12 device running KVM and would like to install FC13 as a VM. I am having lot of problems from the installer failing when packages start to install to nearly all the way through package installation. I have disabled "ACPI" and added "acpi=off" to the install k