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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How to run KVM on non-X environment with Windows 2008 as a guest
I has a debian wheezy OS. And it's a non-X environment, but we just wanna install a windowns 2008 on it.But we couldn't install a X environment on my debian.
Could any one tell me howto?
Thanks!
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KVM: pass-through SATA hot-swap drive?
I have a SATA hot-swap cage in my Linux box. Is it possible to pass-through the SATA disk which is injected in that cage to a KVM guest? I have multiple disks however the SATA port will be always the ...
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Can I virtualize multiple hosts into one virtual system?
I have 5 computer systems in our small office. From my basic understanding of Virtualization technology, I think I can virtualize the 5 systems into one big virtual system. I wish to confirm this.
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LDOMs in Solaris 11 don't work
I just got a new Sun Fire T2000, installed Solaris 11 and was going to configure LDOMs. However "ldmd" can't be started and in turn ldm doesn't work.
root@solaris11:~# ldm
Failed to connect to ...
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Managing XEN through virt-manager on ubuntu 12.04
I have been trying to make xen work on a remote machine with no GUI.Installed XEN hypervisor on the machine and booted in that kernel.Try to create VM using virt-manager. I tried accessing ...
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Virtual Machines (ESXi): Should I use 32-bit or 64-bit guest operating systems? [migrated]
I'm running a "small" test/development virtualization server (running VMware ESXi 5.0) with the following specs:
Intel Xeon E3-1230 (3.2 GHz)
32 GB RAM
OS: VMware ESXi 5.0 (64-bit)
Almost all of my ...
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Proper way to expose VirtualBox' machine to network via “one MAC” security locked switch port
Say, we need to expose LXC container (LXC) or Virtualbox VM (VBM) to public network with its own IP-adress (within additionaly assigned network — ADD-net) which is to be routed through main host. When ...
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My Xeon Processor supports VT-x, is it compatible with Xen? [closed]
While looking for a server to run Xen I stumbled across a barebones setup which comes with an Intel Xeon L5420 on the SuperMicro X7DCA-L motherboard. Doing a bit of research I found the processor ...
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Installing and configuring xen with out virtmanager and GUI
Is there any alternative to configure and install many vms and manage them on a remote machine running on ubuntu 12.04 using XEN.we have to configure vm on a remote machine through ssh.can it be done ...
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Restarting my HyperV Host
A real quick question! I have a physical VHOST which hosts several VM's for different purposes - they are all set to automatically load when my VHOST first boots at staggered times.
Now if I apply ...
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2answers
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Migrate VM from Virtual to Physical Server
I’m after viewpoints on my situation from my fellow sysadmins. I think I have thought of the points, but want someone else’s opinion.
I have an ESXi5 Cluster consisting of 5 Physical machines: 4 in ...
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HARDWARE SOLUTION FOR ESXI SERVER [closed]
I need some hardware solution for ESXi 5.0 server. It would have about 150 virtual machines and it should provide work on about 30 virtual machines simultaneously without slowing. My budget is about ...
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3answers
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Virtual Private Servers/Cloud hosting - Suitable for CPU intensive tasks?
Can anyone with experience of deploying CPU intensive applications into 'cloud' environments (like e.g. Linode), comment on whether these environments have been suitable?
It seems to me that with ...
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Is it possible to install a virtual machine under Linux that looks like a Windows machine to IT? [closed]
I'm on a corporate network with a homogeneous Windows setup for all Dell workstations. They use KBOX to manage the workstations. I want to set up my machine to run several VMs under Linux instead, but ...
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On a virtual Linux system where storage is on network what's the point of the swap file? [closed]
The Linux servers are running on some VMWare ESX systems (guessing, I'm just user). These systems don't have the disks directly attached: they perform everything on a virtual disk that is actually a ...
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Support for virtual IPMI in a VM?
This might be a silly question, but... Is there any hypervisor or other virtualization solution which supports a "virtual IPMI" for virtual machines? I.e. would allow access to something that looks ...
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The certificate in your keychain is not trusted. Citrix XenServer [closed]
Im trying to setup up a virtual environment on my network so I can send the load to my server instead of my crappy laptop. I installed xenserver on my power edge and I am able to connect to it via ...
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Why do systems generally disable virtualization by default in BIOS settings?
I have yet to see a system whose default configuration enables MMU and directed I/O virtualization. Often this necessitates rebooting and going into the BIOS to enable it if you want, e.g., 64-bit ...
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Xen domU CPU Burst limits
We have a set Xen domUs for production and we have been providing different QOS for different clients and needs. We are able to limit the number of VCPUs and the network traffic.
Now, we would like ...
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Is a symmetric dual booting Windows/Ubuntu box possible?
I will soon have a dual booting development machine, with Windows on one HDD and Ubuntu on the other.
They will be configured such that when booted as Windows the IP address is 10.0.0.2 and when ...
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No full screen in Slackware VMWare guest
I have a Slackware server that I use to run virtual machines running Windows and linux. One of the VMs that also Slackware will not by any means run in full screen. I have tried making changes in ...
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Download big files from ESXi?
I want to move one of my vm guest between two ESXi servers. I can't do this with converter or Veaam FastSCP because I'm in another network and using this tools is extremly slow. So I'm trying to copy ...
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Hyper-V Manager/Server failover/redirections
I have currently one Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 server installed, it's successfully running 4 VM's, but memory/RAM is starting to become sparse. I actually have a 2nd machine available, so my great idea ...
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Remote view to To Hyper-V Guest Virtual Machines
My software can discover all the hyperv vms (a software agent is installed in the hyperv host which returns the information). From my software I can do any operation on the vm. Now I want to take a ...
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Installing RHEL/CentOS over FTP using kickstart
I have the following command to install CentOS using the virtual vsFTP server that I have at 192.168.122.1:
virt-install --name kickstart.example.com --ram 768 \
--disk ...
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2 x Intel XEON E5504 CPU VS 1 x Intel XEON E5620 CPU ? for servery will carry about 20 to 30vps [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my capacity planning?
i will buy a server to hold number of medium vps between 20 - 30 vps , but i don't know what's the best processor to include :
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Route all traffic on specific domainname to a VirtualBox VM on Windows Server 2008
I've been struggling with some routing problem for a while now, and can't seem to get any way with it.
My setup:
Windows Server 2008
1 NIC w/ 2 IP addresses
VirtualBox VM, w/ Ubuntu Server (LAMP ...
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Virtualbox or VMware networking
Background
I have a lab setup in which the guest OS uses postfix as an MTA. Now my host is connected to a Terminal server which for now is on LAN (A lab). Guest has different servers which are needed ...
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1answer
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ESXi 5 licencing [closed]
I have dedicated server with one physical CPU (socket) and 64GB RAM. I have ESXi 5 installed trial for 60 days (I didn't apply any licence and it is coming to an end). I have 5 virtual machines using ...
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Consistency of virtual machine backups using ghettoVCB
I have a ESXi host with both Windows and CentOS virtual machines running.
A couple of them are running SQL Databases (MSSQL and MySQL).
I am trying to setup a backup strategy using the ghettoVCB ...
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Should I Use the Default SQL Server 2012 Accounts or Make Specific Ones?
I'm installing the 180 day trial of SQL Server 2012 on a virtual machine with the intent of buying a license for it later on. From past experiences with installing SQL Server I would always make ...
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How to run an OVA + OVF appliance inside of AWS EC2?
GitHub Enterprise ships as an Open Virtualisation Appliance and File; it's intended to be dropped into existing virtualization setup like VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.
I'd like to run it inside of the AWS ...
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Configure dhcp client to connect to the right subnet
Sorry if this sounds a bit muddled; I am fairly new to networking. My goal is to have two or more subnets on one network. When I add a new server to the network (a virtual machine), I want to be able ...
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Hosting multiple different sites on the same server?
I have a server with multiple different sites hosted on it. Additionally it has mysql-server that housing information for every site. Over the weekend I had slow queries for one of the databases on ...
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Implement a SOHO server on the limited functionality host (Win Home) using the virtualized Linux server as a guest OS on that host? [closed]
Consider a machine running a very limited server functionality OS (for example, Windows Home Edition). I want to implement a basic SOHO router functionality (nat, dhcp, vpn, routing) using modern ...
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Create Development Environment out of a Live Production Linux System?
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server running production and I'd like to create a development and staging server. One option is to install everything the way it's installed on production, but this will ...
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What is the difference between RHEV and oVirt?
When I read the wikipedia articles about RHEV and oVirt, I can't really figure out why Red Hat have both projects, as they seam to solve the same problem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RHEV
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Manage multiple zLinux SuSE Servers [closed]
My shop virtualizes a few hundred SuSE 11.1 servers through IBM's zVM hypervisor. (If you've never heard of zVM, it runs on a mainframe and virtualizes Linux in the s390x architecture. It's a ...
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Solved - Xen RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy
I'm getting following error while creating vm.
here is network interface config.
vif = ['type=ioemu, ip=192.168.122.101, vifname=vifvm102.0, mac=00:16:3e:f1:51:45, rate=12800KB/s, bridge=br0']
If i ...
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KVM Guest Shows High CPU Usage in Host but not in Guest
Host is Ubuntu 10.04 Server. 8 physical cores. Guest is Ubuntu 12.04; its allocated two CPU. I have other VMs, but the last few days I've run only this one guest.
Top inside the guest reports load ...
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Photoshop virtual appliance [closed]
Is there a Photoshop virtual appliance? I failed at Googling for one.
In other words, is there a pre-packaged virtual machine that is intended to simply run Photoshop scripts?
Lastly, is there a ...
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Linux add bridge interface with DHCP IP assigning
How can i configure an bridge interface with command line which is being created with virt-manager i.e. virbr0, virbr1 . I can create simple bridge interface but don't know how to configure this for ...
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Trying to get IIS running in VM and Visual Studio running natively, with files on native file system
here's the set up I'm trying to go work.
Windows 7, with files for an "ASP.NET Web Application"
(a new one created by wizard for this test) installed in c:\tfsprojects\test\test
this project opens ...
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Shared storage between VMs
I am new to server administration and virtualization, and I have a couple of questions that I hope to get some help for.
I have two server boxes that are of similar set up. The differences between ...
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Adding RAM to a virtual machine without restart
Could anyone suggest me a hypervisor that permits adding RAM to a running virtual machine without restarting the guest OS. Is this even possible? Can this be done on xen? I have never found any ...
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Virtual IP Addresses [closed]
I am in Canada and wish to stream "all" Netflix content so that I have available the selections in the US while I am in Canada.
I have heard of the VIP but to be quite honest have not got a clue ...
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virtual san appliance in esxi? why?
I am looking at different SAN solutions (Starwind, Lefthand, OpenFiler, OpenSolaris, etc.) for my small office and I understand that there are many virtual SAN appliance (VSA) solutions which can be ...
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windows server 2008 r2 on vmware [closed]
i want to install windows server 2008 R2 (64 bit) on VMware on my laptop but i can't becouse it dont support virtualization.i need to buy a new one.how can i recognize that a brand of laptop can solve ...
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Debian server as a virtual guest?
I have a PC with lots of RAM (16GB) and a fast CPU (core i5). I would like to use this one machine both as a server and a deskop pc.
So how about if I do this: I install Ubuntu on it (as GUI desktop) ...
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OS Install Options [closed]
I’m building a workstation which I plan to give some server duties. This is more an experimentation/learning exercise but I would like to follow correct protocols and have a stable system. The ...
