Fedora 42 Virtualization Test Day is underway!

2025-04-04 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hello All, Virtualization is a core feature used on a day-to-day basis by multiple developers, testers and users. Fedora QA is hosting a Virtualization Test Day[0], where we will all be testing the virtualization features for Fedora. The test day app[1] will help people to record results till the

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-24 Thread Javier Perez
Thanks! Found it. Let me play with it. On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:11 AM Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Javier Perez writes: > > > »Hi. > > How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older > > generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep > getting > > crashes. So

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Javier Perez writes: »Hi. How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep getting crashes. Something about UMIP and SIDTs and similar stuff. I did some VM tinkering earlier this year. My recollection is

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Javier Perez
Thx! On Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 04:08 Will McDonald wrote: > This looks like if might help lead you toward an answer... > > > https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/qemu-cpu-models.html#libvirt-guest-xml > > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, 09:54 Javier Perez, wrote: > >> Hi. >> How can I tell virt-mana

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Will McDonald
And... now I'm on a machine with libvirt. >From man virt-install: > --cpu > Syntax: --cpu MODEL[,+feature][,-feature][,match=MATCH][,vendor=VEN‐ > DOR],... > > Use --cpu=? to see a list of all available sub options. Complete de‐ > tails at https://libvirt.org/formatdom

Re: Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Will McDonald
This looks like if might help lead you toward an answer... https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/qemu-cpu-models.html#libvirt-guest-xml On Tue, 23 Jul 2024, 09:54 Javier Perez, wrote: > Hi. > How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older > generation? I am trying

Virtualization and older CPUs

2024-07-23 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. How can I tell virt-manager to create a VM but with a CPU of an older generation? I am trying to play an old game with wine but I keep getting crashes. Something about UMIP and SIDTs and similar stuff. My plan is, given that my CPU is 14th generation, probably I could get away virtualizing a VM

Virtualization: Windows 32-bit i686 guest not working on Fedora 39 x86_64 ?

2024-03-10 Thread Franta Hanzlík via users
After 'dnf system-upgrade...' my machine from F37 x86_64 to F39, win7-32 guest did not start due to BSOD 0x007B boot problem, while win10 64-bit works fine on the same machine. I then tried: - a newly created virtual machine consisting only of Win7-32 or Win10-32 installation ISO image fre

Fedora 39 Virtualization Test Day 2023-10-09

2023-10-09 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All, We are going to test all forms of virtualization possible in Fedora. The test day [0] will focus on testing Fedora or your favourite distro inside a bare-metal implementation of Fedora running Boxes, KVM, VirtualBox, and whatever you have. The general features of installing the OS and

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-14 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 12:31 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:38:36 -0600 > > Sbob wrote: > > > > > Are there others? > > > > The native linux qemu/libvirt stuff works fine for me. > > Agreed. It's also the only gam

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-14 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 16:03 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2022-07-13 03:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 17:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:31:44 +0100 > > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > try > > > > figuring out how to share files betw

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-14 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 8:03 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2022-07-13 03:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 17:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:31:44 +0100 > >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >>> try > >>> figuring out how to share files between host

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2022-07-13 03:07, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 17:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:31:44 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: try figuring out how to share files between host and guest I just use the same technique I'd use for a "real" machine: NFS or SM

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 17:37 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:31:44 +0100 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > try > > figuring out how to share files between host and guest > > I just use the same technique I'd use for a "real" machine: NFS or > SMB :-). Indeed, however that isn'

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-13 Thread ja
; from any updates so the only kernel that VMware works with does not get > removed. > > > Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or > at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? > Are there others? > > > Thank

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
works with does not get removed. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? Are there others? Thanks in advance # dnf install kvm virt-manager libvirt

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Sam Varshavchik
does not get removed. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? Are there others? Thanks in advance dnf install virt-manager ? qemu and virt-manager works fine for me. Win10 a bit sluggish

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 22:31:44 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > try > figuring out how to share files between host and guest I just use the same technique I'd use for a "real" machine: NFS or SMB :-). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 09:58 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 2022-07-12 09:29, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:38:36 -0600 > > > Sbob wrote: > > > > > > > Are there others? > > > > > > The native linux qemu/libvirt st

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2022-07-12 09:29, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:38:36 -0600 Sbob wrote: Are there others? The native linux qemu/libvirt stuff works fine for me. Agreed. It's also the only game in town if you want to do GPU pass-

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Sbob
from any updates so the only kernel that VMware works with does not get removed. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? Are there others? Thanks in advance I completely share your

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Mike Wright
works with does not get removed. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? If you're interested in running servers and don't need a gui or audio and ssh is good enough I'

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:29:58 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It's also the only game in town if you want to do GPU pass- > through. And if you need 3D graphics in your Windows VM, you have to do GPU pass through :-). (Unless various virtual 3D drivers for Windows have made progress I haven't n

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:38:36 -0600 > Sbob wrote: > > > Are there others? > > The native linux qemu/libvirt stuff works fine for me. Agreed. It's also the only game in town if you want to do GPU pass- through. On the downside, the documentat

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:38:36 -0600 Sbob wrote: > Are there others? The native linux qemu/libvirt stuff works fine for me. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Mark C. Allman via users
works with does not get removed. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? Are there others? Thanks in advance I completely share your frustration. I run Windows 11 in a VM. I've l

Virtualization Recommendations?

2022-07-12 Thread Sbob
. Are there any other virtualization tools that would continue to work, or at least continue to work with more recent kernels? Is Xen an option? Are there others? Thanks in advance ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-27 Thread Chris Murphy
est both and pick the one with better performance. https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/virtualization/html/book.virt/cha.cachemodes.html#cachemodes.descr Note that some of the cache modes must be paired with a specific IO mode, e.g. unsafe only works with threads. -- Chris Murphy ___

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mer, 24/04/2019 alle 11.26 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > You haven't said which version of Win10 your friend has Win10pro Thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 11:07 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno mar, 23/04/2019 alle 21.39 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > Is the user interfacing with the VM through virt-manager, or over > > RDP? My experience has been that, although Spice is better than VNC, > > interfacing with the vir

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 23/04/2019 alle 21.39 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > Is the user interfacing with the VM through virt-manager, or over > RDP? My experience has been that, although Spice is better than VNC, > interfacing with the virtual console is noticeably less responsive > than RDP. My fri

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/10/19 8:18 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 19.53 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? see attach. It looks like this host is using virtio drivers for disk and network, and that's usually the important bits.  It's p

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-11 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno gio, 11/04/2019 alle 08.26 -0500, Rex Dieter ha scritto: > Use virtio drivers? Yes, all without video driver Tomorrow I try other suggested options Thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) ___ users mailing list -

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:26 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Dario Lesca wrote: > > > On a i7+16Gb+SSD notebook of a my friend I have install Fedora 29 > > workstation (all work fine! ... thank to all!) > > and into qemu/kvm/libvirtd via virt-manager I have install a win10pro > > with all virtio driver

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-11 Thread Rex Dieter
Dario Lesca wrote: > On a i7+16Gb+SSD notebook of a my friend I have install Fedora 29 > workstation (all work fine! ... thank to all!) > and into qemu/kvm/libvirtd via virt-manager I have install a win10pro > with all virtio driver (disk, network, ecc..). > > After few days my friend say me that

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase the performance for win10 VM? Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) Hi Dario, Keep in mind that Windows 10 runs at abo

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-10 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 19.53 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? see attach. Thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) win10.xml Description: XML document ___ user

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-10 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 13.16 -0700, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: > > [ ] qxl/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 7 and earlier. (build > > virtio-win-0.1.103-1 and later) > > [ ] qxldod/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 8 and later. (build > > virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later) > > Why don't you i

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/9/19 4:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 1:41 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: what specifically is the slowdown? From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox and in vmware. Since qemu has 47 gazillion different fo

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 16:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > what specifically is the > > slowdown? > > From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the > virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox > and in vmware. Since

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 13:20:05 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > what specifically is the > slowdown? From my highly non-scientific and inexact testing, the virtual disks have better I/O performance in virtualbox and in vmware. Since qemu has 47 gazillion different format virtual disks, I have no idea whi

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 4:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: After few days my friend say me that the win10 is slow and less efficient than same installation on another PC with VirtualBox. He told me "virtualbox is better and faster" I have heard this statement in other cases in the past and the only solution (sig!)

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/9/19 7:51 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: [ ] qxl/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 7 and earlier. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-1 and later) [ ] qxldod/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 8 and later. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later) Why don't you install the graphics drivers? That could def

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:52 AM Dario Lesca wrote: > > There is some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase > the performance for win10 VM? > I'd like to know as well. I have tried KVM periodically, but the performance is always horrible with Windows VMs, and since having a pla

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:51:29 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > is this correct ? or I must install also other drivers? That looks like all the ones I have, so you probably do have about as good performance as you are likely to get (as far as I know anyway, lots of people probably know more about qemu th

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 09.06 -0400, Tom Horsley ha scritto: > You should certainly install all the redhat virtualdrivers for disks > and network if you haven't already: > https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers Thank for reply, but when I have install w10 I have mount the virti

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:51:27 +0200 Dario Lesca wrote: > There is some other solution to optimize qemu/kvm on Fedora to increase > the performance for win10 VM? You should certainly install all the redhat virtual drivers for disks and network if you haven't already: https://www.linux-kvm.org/page

Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-09 Thread Dario Lesca
Fedora to increase the performance for win10 VM? Someone has some performance comparison between the two virtualization system? Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproj

using "dnf group remove" to *totally* remove all virtualization?

2018-04-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a couple more dnf/virtualization questions and that should be it. first, is there any option, when removing a package group with "dnf group remove", to remove even those packages that were installed manually? last time i looked (and i believe i just reconfirmed that), dnf keeps trac

Re: virtualization on f20

2014-02-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Just tried fedora 20 running off a 1G thumb drive and am impressed with its > speed. Looks like a lot of things are coming together. Good job. > > I'm most interested in virtualization. yum didn't show any pack

virtualization on f20

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Just tried fedora 20 running off a 1G thumb drive and am impressed with its speed. Looks like a lot of things are coming together. Good job. I'm most interested in virtualization. yum didn't show any package groups related to that and I didn't find much in th

Re: can't find Virtualization Guide

2014-01-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/17/14 07:54, Mike Wright wrote: > Salve fedoristi, > > Anybody know where this is? > > Fedora Virtualization Deployment and Administration Guide > > Thank you http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and

can't find Virtualization Guide

2014-01-16 Thread Mike Wright
Salve fedoristi, Anybody know where this is? Fedora Virtualization Deployment and Administration Guide Thank you -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct

Re: Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:33:48 -0400 Digimer wrote: > KVM with the virtio disk bus should be fine. The default disk cache algorithm with virtio is horrible. I forget which algorithm is which, but changing the cache setting took me from 10 hours to write a large file over virtio to 10 minutes to wri

Re: Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Digimer
On 07/12/2012 12:15 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > Hi FC folks, > > I am setting up a FC 16 workstation and need a VM to load XP (sic) for > outlook access. > > Looking at virtualization options. > > I find the default of qemu has worked for me before, but the chart of >

Calling FC 16 Virtualization experts!

2012-07-12 Thread Jack Craig
Hi FC folks, I am setting up a FC 16 workstation and need a VM to load XP (sic) for outlook access. Looking at virtualization options. I find the default of qemu has worked for me before, but the chart of options suggests the qemu performance isn't that great. conversely, XEN & KVM

Re: F16: kernel 3.4.2 and virtualization problems

2012-06-20 Thread sguazt
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:45 PM, sguazt wrote: > Hello, > > I've just upgraded the kernel with last yum updates and now I have > problems in properly running Xen/libvirt. > > The first strange thing it happened is a file system corruption of one > of my VMs. > The second strange thing is that now

F16: kernel 3.4.2 and virtualization problems

2012-06-20 Thread sguazt
Hello, I've just upgraded the kernel with last yum updates and now I have problems in properly running Xen/libvirt. The first strange thing it happened is a file system corruption of one of my VMs. The second strange thing is that now I am unable to successfully create a new VM. If I run: sudo v

Re: Virtualization Documentation

2011-12-12 Thread iarly selbir
You can refer on following links about KVM Virtualization, I've used that docs as my guide to deploy both kvm in rhel env or fedora(personal purpose) http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/index

Virtualization Documentation

2011-12-09 Thread Gene Poole
The last official piece of documentation on virtualization was written for Fedora 13. I've found a unofficial document on 'How To Forge' about KVM virtualization and Fedora 14. Hasn't there been enough changes and additions to KVM virtualization by Fedora 16 t

what's the state of qemu-system-ppc virtualization in fedora 16?

2011-11-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
what little i know of PPC virtualization suggests that qemu-system-ppc is still a work in progress, at least on ubuntu which is what's running on one of my systems. so i'd like to switch back to fedora for what will be an extended adventure in virtualization. as a specific example

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-04 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 14:25 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > > A few questions on this one: > > - How much CPU and RAM resource do you need/intend to provide to > each > > Oracle DB? > > This macine's only purpose is for the Oracle DBs. So, I had hoped to > split up the CPUs and RAM evenly a

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-03 Thread aragonx
> A few questions on this one: > - How much CPU and RAM resource do you need/intend to provide to each > Oracle DB?  This macine's only purpose is for the Oracle DBs.  So, I had hoped to split up the CPUs and RAM evenly among the clients. > - What version of Oracle?  10g > - Do you plan to

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-03 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 07:34 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 08/02/2011 11:26 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > No - not even close. The reality is that Oracle will not ask you to > > change the hypervisor. Not in theory or in practice. Among other things, > > that's illegal. There are alrea

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/02/2011 11:26 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > No - not even close. The reality is that Oracle will not ask you to > change the hypervisor. Not in theory or in practice. Among other things, > that's illegal. There are already lawsuits underway in related actions > by Oracle, which I won't

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
they certify their database on IBM vs. HP vs. Dell > > hardware and you'll find that they don't certify any of them. > > Not entirely correct. Oracle _does_ use the term "certifies" when > referring not just to the OS but to the virtualization platform. Check >

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 21:54 -0400, Peter A wrote: > > Hrm... Oracle ID 249212.1: > Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized > environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products > on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide > sup

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
;t certify any of them. Not entirely correct. Oracle _does_ use the term "certifies" when referring not just to the OS but to the virtualization platform. Check this post and the Metalink notes mentioned there (I assume you have a Metalink account): http://blogs.oracle.com/UPGRADE/entry/i

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Peter A
On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 09:40:57 PM Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 17:43 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > To this day, as far as I know, Oracle doesn't certify their database on > > any virtualization platform other than theirs. That said, I know

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 17:43 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 08/02/2011 04:50 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > I specialize in virtualizing Oracle Databases (among other things). > > Given the choices of virtualization platforms you gave, I would tend to > > go with

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/02/2011 04:50 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I specialize in virtualizing Oracle Databases (among other things). > Given the choices of virtualization platforms you gave, I would tend to > go with either VirtualBox or KVM, in that order of preference. Hi Christopher, To thi

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:49:45 -0400 arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: > Any > recommendations before I start down the wrong path? I use KVM at work on two hosts, one intel, the other amd. I've had more random flaky problems with VMs hosted on the amd machine than on the intel machine (though nothing I've b

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I start down the wrong path? A few questions on this one: - How much CPU and RAM resource do you need/intend to provide to each Oracle DB? - What version of Oracle? - Do you plan to use ASM and Grid Infrastructure? I specialize in virtualizing Oracle Databases (among other things). Given the ch

Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I'm looking to setup the following environment: 4 dual-core 2.6GhZ AMD Opteron Processors (64bit) 32GB RAM 2 6TB esata disks (each client needs 3T of space) 4 GB networks connections (would be nice if I could dedicate one to each client OS) Starting with Fedora 15 as my host OS. 3

Re: Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?

2011-07-03 Thread Manuel Escudero
2011/7/3 Sam Sharpe > On 3 July 2011 13:57, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, > > Manuel Escudero wrote: > >> As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access > to > >> and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the >

Re: Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?

2011-07-03 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 3 July 2011 13:57, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, >  Manuel Escudero wrote: >> As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to >> and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution >> is using the cloud to ca

Re: Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?

2011-07-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:25:39 -0500, Manuel Escudero wrote: > As maybe I can't run a VM in all the computers that I might have access to > and because Wine Can't Emulate some programs correctly, I Know the solution > is using the cloud to carry my apps with me, I was wondering if there is a >

Apps Virtualization with OpenSource?

2011-07-03 Thread Manuel Escudero
Hi, I'm going to give you some quick context: Last week I went to a "Startup Weekend" Event in Guadalajara, Jalisco, (My county is Mexico) and I live in Mexico City. Usually I use Desktop machines, in fact, I ONLY own one computer and it's a Desktop (F15 KDE 64 Bits BTW) And it has never gave me

Re: xen virtualization: xen-4.1 rpm?

2011-03-30 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Mike Wright wrote: > On 03/29/2011 02:42 PM, M A Young wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Mike Wright wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know when we might get our hands on the new xen-4.1 rpms? >> >> On F15 or rawhide, >> yum install xen xen-runtime xen-hypervisor > > Thanks, Michael.

Re: xen virtualization: xen-4.1 rpm?

2011-03-30 Thread Mike Wright
On 03/29/2011 02:42 PM, M A Young wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Mike Wright wrote: > >> Does anybody know when we might get our hands on the new xen-4.1 rpms? > > On F15 or rawhide, > yum install xen xen-runtime xen-hypervisor Thanks, Michael. Added the f15 repo and did a yum install xen... and g

Re: xen virtualization: xen-4.1 rpm?

2011-03-29 Thread M A Young
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Mike Wright wrote: > Does anybody know when we might get our hands on the new xen-4.1 rpms? On F15 or rawhide, yum install xen xen-runtime xen-hypervisor Michael Young -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

xen virtualization: xen-4.1 rpm?

2011-03-29 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, I found about the new version here: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HostConfiguration/Networking If I understand correctly this means we will define our networks on our host machines using standard networking tools/scripts and that from that point on our virtuals will be able to attac

Re: Virtualization for dummies

2010-08-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:47:10 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Also, can someone clarify for me > how the virtual display works -- would the virtual machine run in an > ordinary window, or does it take the entire display, with a hotkey to flip > between the virtual machine and the host OS. The di

Re: Virtualization for dummies

2010-08-07 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:47:10 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'm planning on taking a plunge into virtualization. I need to retire > an ancient server, and I'm about to order a new kit to replace it. > Given that it's new hardware, I expect to get something that supports &

Virtualization for dummies

2010-08-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm planning on taking a plunge into virtualization. I need to retire an ancient server, and I'm about to order a new kit to replace it. Given that it's new hardware, I expect to get something that supports hardware virtualization (it's going to be a real server, and not som

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/19/2010 07:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > solarflow99 wrote: > >> I have a P-4 2.8Ghz and it doesnt seem to have the VMX instructions >> for virtualization. What I notice is KVM uses QEMU for the hypervisor >> instead? I can't detach some hardware that I ne

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-19 Thread Bill Davidsen
solarflow99 wrote: > I have a P-4 2.8Ghz and it doesnt seem to have the VMX instructions > for virtualization. What I notice is KVM uses QEMU for the hypervisor > instead? I can't detach some hardware that I need for the VM to > recognize a USB pluged in, etc. Does anyone kno

Re: virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-17 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 07/15/2010 04:29 PM, solarflow99 wrote: > I have a P-4 2.8Ghz and it doesnt seem to have the VMX instructions > for virtualization. What I notice is KVM uses QEMU for the hypervisor > instead? I can't detach some hardware that I need for the VM to > recognize a USB plu

virtualization without VMX cpu

2010-07-15 Thread solarflow99
I have a P-4 2.8Ghz and it doesnt seem to have the VMX instructions for virtualization. What I notice is KVM uses QEMU for the hypervisor instead? I can't detach some hardware that I need for the VM to recognize a USB pluged in, etc. Does anyone know if there is any way around that? pe

Re: KVM Virtualization - Please Help

2010-05-10 Thread Jim
On 05/10/2010 02:02 PM, Mike Guilmot wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Jim > wrote: Could some one please direct me to the Instructions for installing KVM on FC12 . I have googled my self crazy, everything I do a Search for it has the wrong

Re: KVM Virtualization - Please Help

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 10 May 2010 13:54:35 -0400 Jim wrote: > Could some one please direct me to the Instructions for installing > KVM on FC12 . > > I have googled my self crazy, everything I do a Search for it has the > wrong version of > Virtual Manager and the instructions do not apply completely with the

Re: KVM Virtualization - Please Help

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Guilmot
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Jim wrote: > Could some one please direct me to the Instructions for installing KVM > on FC12 . > > I have googled my self crazy, everything I do a Search for it has the > wrong version of > Virtual Manager and the instructions do not apply completely with the > l

KVM Virtualization - Please Help

2010-05-10 Thread Jim
Could some one please direct me to the Instructions for installing KVM on FC12 . I have googled my self crazy, everything I do a Search for it has the wrong version of Virtual Manager and the instructions do not apply completely with the latest update. I can't get a Window7 image to install i

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
VMWare ones for the latest kernels) that will enable decent performance on non-virtualized CPU. QEMU doesn't have it, and will typically be extremely slow. > Additionally, not only do you need a CPU with the > virtualization assist but you also need support for it in the BIOS. All >

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-19 Thread Ralph Blach
fine on a > non-virtualized CPU. Additionally, not only do you need a CPU with the > virtualization assist but you also need support for it in the BIOS. All > AMD 64-bit CPU chips and most (but not all) Intel chips have the > virtualization assistance. > > -- users

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-19 Thread Jerry Feldman
; but I am studying this asiduously to implement it. > > I´ll let you know how it went! > > Ok. Virtualbox, VMWare, and QEMU (without KVM) will run fine on a non-virtualized CPU. Additionally, not only do you need a CPU with the virtualization assist but you also need support for it i

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-08 Thread Javier Perez
Thanks Jerry and everyone else who answered! I started to virtualized but found out my CPU did not have vmx (E5200 :( ) It will be awhile until I replace the CPU to something with vmx, and start to practice it, but I am studying this asiduously to implement it. I´ll let you know how it went! Tha

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-04 Thread Bill Davidsen
Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Javier Perez wrote: > >> do I have to reformat my HD, reinstall FC12, and then >> install win2k, or can I just install yum install the >> virtual parts for kvm and have it start as a guest >> the already isntalled win2k ? >> > > In my experience, this does not work

Re: Virtualization

2010-04-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 22:05 -0400, R. G. Newbury wrote: > Kudos are due! Sorry, I just can't let this go by: kudos *is* due (look it up). poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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