I’m going to skip the explanations of these things, and jump right to the how to set them up in Proxmox. I am working with Proxmox 1.4, and a Cisco 4506 switch. The Cisco has several vLANs configured, and the Proxmox host has dual Intel NICs on eth0 and eth1. On the Cisco switch, we ...Read More
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Linux w/ KVM. I’ve been waiting a long time (almost 3 years) for it to mature both in technical capability and in corporate viability. I started using it in limited production use about 2 years ago, and in the past 12 months have migrated all physical and virtual systems over to it. In one location ...Read More
Red Hat goes to Beta with it’s KVM based Virtualization platform. KVM is a module for Linux that turns the Linux kernel into a Hypervisor. It is already used in many deployments around the world. I am currently a heavy implementer of it, utilizing the Proxmox Linux distribution, which is a complete Linux installation customized ...Read More
Reminiscent of what Firefox has done to the browser, Red Hat announced today its line-up of virtualization technologies, which is set to make a commodity of virtualization. It is worth the time to watch the short video from two of its executives: Red Hat’s Virtualization Strategy A key quote from the short video: “Fundamentally… a ...Read More
When running a virtualized Windows Server with SMP (multi-processor) on hardware that has an AMD processor, you may notice a strange issue with timing. It is easy to recognize; open a Command Prompt, and ping an IP address (I ping-ed a local peer). You will get strange response times, such as -61000, 2100, etc. The ...Read More
Its funny to see how such a small change in a complex system can make such a huge difference. A tiny little update to the Proxmox virtualization platform was pushed through yesterday. A new configuration option ‘args’ has been made available. You can now pass any KVM configuration command option to to your guests. You ...Read More