Virtualization commonly refers to three distinct technologies: Hardware Virtualization, Software Virtualization, and User Experience Virtualization. (Most commonly the first, Hardware Virtualization) Hardware (sometimes called Operating System virtualization) is the use of software to allow a piece ...
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Server setup on bare metal: Services on VM vs services on bare metal(host) OS
I have a beefy linux server (32 GB RAM) with good harddrives. with one of my hosts. I run a lot of webapps which use varnish, nginx, unicorn app server, thin app server, redis, mongodb and ...
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Virtual machine? Ideal environment?
I have to deploy an app and the target box I am installing on is a Suse Enterprise box. I develop on RedHat and Ubuntu with absolutely no problem, but deploying to Suse has been fraught with problems.
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Ganeti vs Proxmox
I'm system administrator in small software house. I'm going to virtualise our servers. The main reason for doing this is providing highest possible uptime, but probably it will also increase resources ...
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How to share Internet connection with Ubuntu Virtual Machine?
I have Windows Server 2008 R2 as host and Installed Ubuntu 11.04 as Virtual Machine using Virtual Box. My proxy is configured using URL. I tried configuring in the networking settings and also with ...
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Virtualisation current physical environment
We are planning to do a migration with our current physical environment to a new, virtualized SAN infrastructure.
To keep it short, we want to migratie first our DC (3), Exchange (1) and file server.
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How to create a Windows 2008 VM for uploading to Azure?
I have an existing Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) machine chugging along. I want to create a VM image of this physical machine so that I can upload it to Azure for scalability purposes.
I've found ways to ...
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Distribute the load all around the world
Let's say we're starting a project which is meant to be served all around the world
How am I supposed to distribute the database and server load, and increase (optimize) the service for large ...
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Ocfs2 volume sharing between hostOS and VM with KVM on Ubuntu
I'm trying to setup ocfs2 on Ubuntu Oneiric Server (3.0 kernel). I'm sharing a LV from a VG on the host. The HostOS is Ubuntu Lucid (also on a 3.0 kernel).
I can share the ocfs2 partition on the ...
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Virtual Machine Resources
I'm running a process which is latency sensitive and running it on a shared virtual box for costs reasons.
How can I analyze how busy (utilization) on this box ? In particular, I'm concerned about ...
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Virtualisation solutions using binary translation
Am I correct in thinking that the only (serious) option for virtualisation on older servers/CPUs that don't support Intel's VT-X/AMD-V for hardware assisted virtualisation is VMware ESX Server which ...
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Mounting filesystem on logical volume inside virtual whole-disk image
I have tried to mount a virtual disk image on my Fedora host using the command
qemu-nbd -c /dev/ndb0 rawhide.img
and then detecting the LVM logical volumes and mounting the one I wanted. Obviously, ...
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VDI At Home on an Open Source budget [closed]
Since implementing xendesktop in the office, I have been drooling for this kind of flexibility at home.
Being able to access my home system with the kind of usability and multimedia capabilities that ...
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Should I monitor the hard disks of a VM in an IaaS environment?
I have servers on an IAAS environment, and am wondering if I'd need disk monitoring (Which would monitor the temp etc on a disk in a SAN)?
In my VM, do I need to have disk monitoring software?
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Hyper-V - Not your standard V2V
The main question is:
Can I perform a Virtual to Virtual Conversion from one Hyper-V Server to another Hyper-V Server?
Why I need to convert instead of a myriad of other options:
We've got a RHEL 5 ...
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Virtualize MS-DOS desktop & copying the HDD verbatim
Here at work, we have one user with some specialized legacy software, the developer of which has gone "belly up"* a long time ago.
When trying to copy the program to other systems (trying to check if ...
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Managing a QEMU guest from the host's CLI
Can I manage a QEMU guest from the host's CLI? I'm coming from Xen and I liked the xm command. I'd like to shutdown the guest, attach PCI devices to it and so on. Is there a way?
There's the QEMU ...
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Recommended way to setup a secure ESXi environment with a publicly accessible range and 2 NICs
I am fairly new to ESXi but have decided to dive into this, but have found out that things are not as easy as I had expected them to be (no doubt this is primarily caused by my lack of knowledge on ...
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TCP/IP performance tuning under KVM/Qemu
With more and more companies switching to public cloud services, I'm curious what you guys' thoughts are on TCP/IP tuning in the cloud. Is it worth bothering with? Given that you don't have access to ...
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Tools for gathering metrics about physical environment for use in virtualization/cloud planning?
I'm looking for tools that will work on either Linux/Unix or Windows Server that for a given set of servers in an enterprise environent, will:
Identify the server [via hostname, or some other unique ...
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Accessing VMWare Player Virtual OS Server from Host [closed]
I have VMWare Player 4.0 running on my host Windows 7 Pro. I have a guest OS setup CentOS 6 running Apache. I'm a bit confused as to what network settings I need in order to access from the Host OS ...
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Options for centralising Windows installations?
My situation is as follows: I'm in a company with 12~15 employees. All of them are currently using a separate pc with a Windows XP installation. Managing these systems is very time consuming and ...
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Run an ubuntu instance with virtualbox in bash?
I've used VirtualBox on a mac server, to run Ubuntu server instances, and I've liked it.
However I have a little bit of difficulty, because VirtualBox seems to be a GUI thing, so I SVN into my mac ...
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Moving all internal servers to the cloud
Background
One of my clients is an IT-dependent workflow-driven law firm with about 50 seats. They have been audited by one of their clients (an FSA regulated mortgage lender) and told that their ...
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Virtualization - better understanding?
I have been tasked with moving our servers from their current physical location into a new environment. Many of these systems are older and nearing "end of life". At the same time I need to replace ...
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What is a good server configuration for VM host? [closed]
We look to buy a new server to serve as VM host for 8 - 12 VK guests. The server will probably run XenCenter, or XenCloud.
The guest will be mixed Windows and Linux, with 1 - 2 GB ram each, and ...
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How exactly does virtualization help reduce IT infrastructure cost? [closed]
I keep hearing a lot about virtualization and a lot of claims that it helps reduce IT infrastructure costs.
How exactly is the latter achieved? Is the benefit coming from running several virtual ...
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Virtual Cpu on Amazon EC2
I just have a quick question regarding EC2. Its to do with CPU sharing on Amazon EC2. Amazon supports a number of different instance types, be it small, medium, large etc. Each of these has a number ...
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What Virtualization Servers support windows clients with Direct X? [migrated]
In advance I'd like to state this question is similar to its predecessors here and here but, those questions are old and I would like an up to date answer based on current technology.
I want to host ...
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Pimp my cloud server [migrated]
I am trying to consolidate all my home servers(HTPC,HTTP,FTP,etc) into a single system along with gaining a ton of network storage. So at the beginning of last year I started buying hardware, then I ...
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PCI DSS compliance on a virtualized server running Xen
I have a server running xen with HVM and would like to make one VM PCI compliant. I've read the PCI virtualization guide and it says that I need to make sure there is no information leakage between ...
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Virtual Network Interface
I have a question about setting up a customized network over virtual machines.
I just have access to one cloud provider that gives me ability to load multiple virtual machines. Each user may have his ...
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How to properly set CPU Units for OpenVz VEs
According to all the sources I read (openvz wiki, various mailinglists, forums, ..) the values of the cpuunits settings are relative to each other. So when all are equal and the system is busy, all ...
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Capture network traffic of a single application?
I am looking for a method / hack / kernel module to capture network traffic of a PID and all it's forks / child processes.
I have a firefox applications that opens some web pages and starts to stream ...
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How can import an existing linux machine into Rackspace?
How can import an existing linux machine into Rackspace is pretty much what I'd like to know. I've got a VM hosted in a datacenter, and I'd like to move that VM, which is configured and running ...
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VM to VM communication between two ESXi hosts on the same LAN
I have two ESXi 4 hosts on the same network, which has the following details:
HOST1:
IP: X.X.79.210
Subnet: 255.255.255.240
Gateway: X.X.79.209
HOST2:
IP: X.X.80.82
Subnet: 255.255.255.248
Gateway: ...
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Open source network and host emulator
I am wondering if the following product even exists. Here's my wish list:
Bootable CD with simple (XML, YAML) configuration allowing you to spin up multiple virtual hosts, each with their own IP and ...
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Virtual networks connected to a computer acting as firewall (KVM)
I have successfully created a schema like this with VirtualBox, but now I have to do a final project and I would like to do it with KVM and Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager).
I am having some ...
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Is it possible to configure cloud without virtualization?
I have learned that cloud computing provides computation, software, data access, and storage services and virtualization is mandatory for cloud computing. I have also found in some places that there ...
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Clustering on Virtual Machine
Can you cluster/load balance on a virtual machine? I figured that would be redundant if the same machine is still performing the work but in virtual areas, or am I wrong?
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When running virtual machines, is VT-x support or higher clock speed better? [migrated]
I'm looking at building a new desktop workstation. I will be using VMWare Workstation to run virtual machines, probably only one or two at a time. I am currently deciding on CPU and the options I am ...
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Load Balancing and Dedicated/Virtual Server
I'm not an expert is this area but with regards to load balancing, what are the benefits of using a dedicated server compared to a virtual server? Is there a difference? Costs, ease of use, etc?
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Advice/guides for building and expandable virtual environment [closed]
I am looking to build a virtual environment to run virtual machines (propably using vmWare products).
Can any give any good advice, or point me towards some good documents, regarding best practices ...
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How to create a virtual machine server image from a physical windows 2008 server?
Is there a tool that can take a windows server 2008 and make a vdh or vmdk out of that box?
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Can I register event callbacks using the libvirt Python module with a QEMU backend? [migrated]
I would like to write some code to monitor events for domains running under QEMU, managed by libvirt. However, trying to register an event handler yields the following error:
>>> import ...
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Ubuntu server error while setting up Virtual Server
On Ubuntu server 11.10 I am trying to install a virtual machine using virt-manager. I beleive that I have everything right, but when I go and run the command "virt-manager" I get the following error ...
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Virtual Desktops : 8 am when everyone comes in
I'm learning about virtual desktops and I was wondering; suppose you have 1500 people in your company, almost all using virtual desktops, and they would have to start up their computers all at the ...
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Which policy do you follow for maintain your VMs? [closed]
Which rules/policy or procedure do you use to maintain your list of VMs?
For ex. Will you assign a VM and keep eyeing on whether it is being utilized or kept idle? (So that you can take it back to ...
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vmware workstation virtual machines are painfully slow and slowing the host as well
I am on Windows 7 64 premium with upgraded 16 gb high speed ram (170000)
I create 2 vm with vmware workstation (Active directory 512mb and SharePoint 6gb ram)
Virtual is enabled at bios level
vmware ...
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Configure VMware vsphere install with multiple raid arrays
I will preface by stating that I am programmer that has acquired some sysadmin extra duties. I have a server that I have installed VMware vSphere 5 on. The server has two raid arrays. 2 600GB disks ...
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VMWare player : Ubuntu 10.04 guest on Win 7 host - network not working
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit desktop version) on VMWare player over Windows 7 host (64 bit). I am unable to access network. apt-get fails and I am unable to browse the internet. I tried ...
