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"I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from<br>
vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed."<br><br><br>That would be good I have read several things but would be nice to see.....<br>I'm not sure how much vmware server 2 makes use of the hardware extensions but thought I would give it a try and see what happens....<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, James Hogarth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.hogarth@gmail.com">james.hogarth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 16 August 2010 15:55, Tom Bishop <<a href="mailto:bishoptf@gmail.com">bishoptf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway ;)<br>
> I did come across this post in fedora forum that got me to think it might<br>
> work....<br>
><br>
><br>
> Currently, I have VMware Server 2.0 and KVM on the same headless machine<br>
> with 4G mem, AMD 4400+. It's running for a small business, therefore, I<br>
> don't mind the performance. However, 2 win2k advance servers on the VMware<br>
> server 2.0, 2 win2k advance servers, a XP desktop and a m0n0wall firewall on<br>
> the KVM are both running fantastically.<br>
><br>
> I'm a fedora fan, but the PC server which I set up is running on Debian<br>
> Lenny (Proxmox, you guys might have heard).<br>
><br>
> I believe that KVM is better, though, I don't have any benchmark on them.<br>
><br>
><br>
> So was just wondering if anyone had tried to do this with centos....looks<br>
> like I will give it a go, all of my clients are Linux.....centos of various<br>
> flavors...I'll report back what I find out...<br>
><br>
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</div>In theory it'll work if you make sure none of your vmware clients are<br>
trying to use VMI ... it's when multiple hypervisors try to take<br>
control of the hypervisor interface/instructions of a smv/vmx CPU that<br>
things get messy... without VMI the vmware guests will be fully<br>
virtualised and not trying to make use of the HVM extensions.... of<br>
course that could effect performance a bit but might not be noticeable<br>
over a short term....<br>
<br>
I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from<br>
vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed.<br>
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James<br>
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