On 9/1/07, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org
Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how reliable it really is? Server should run 27/7, especially taking into account that I am going to use Trixbox telephony server under virtualization.
If KVM crashes, someone of my impatient colleagues may crash something heavy on me, you know what does it mean "phone system does not work at all" in a busy company. Its a joke of course, but I must be 99.99% sure that it will work reliably.
Well, KVM has several issues with *booting* certain guests, but after boot it works very reliably. The issues: graphical GRUB menu is the main one. Disable it - make it text GRUB, and some guest Linux kernels also need nmi_watchdog=0 to boot. Guest OSs, that work reliably with KVM are: RedHat/Fedora and Debian Etch. (needs no workarounds) Ubuntu, SUSE and Mandriva need workarounds described above to boot. Just try it. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org