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
Tags: Virtualization
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
Fluid Ops released a GPL-ed “driver” that allows you to mount a VMFS file system. It mounts it as read-only, but could be quite useful, especially if you need to access VMFS based data, but have no ESX servers around. It is hosted on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/
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