Hi all,
I took a real Core 2 machine (T7200… whose motherboard was starting to die…) running Fedora 29 and dd’d the SSD over to my KVM server, then created a VM using “create from existing image”.
After some tweaking, including setting the disk type to “SATA” from “Virtio”, I got it working.
Is there a fixed recipe for virtualizing CentOS/Fedora/RHEL instances into running VM’s on KVM/Qemu?
Like re-running dracut and adding any particular drivers, etc?
It works, but I don’t know how efficient the emulation is.
The host hardware has IGB NIC’s, and I’m using “hostdev” as the network type, so that seems to be working well enough with the “igbvf” driver.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Hi,
never testet by myself:
usage of virt-p2v
Viele Grüße Helmut Drodofsky
Internet XS Service GmbH Heßbrühlstraße 15 70565 Stuttgart
Geschäftsführung Helmut Drodofsky HRB 21091 Stuttgart USt.ID: DE190582774 Fon: 0711 781941 0 tel:+497117819410 Fax: 0711 781941 79 Mail: info@internet-xs.de www.internet-xs.de Am 07.07.2020 um 06:22 schrieb Philip Prindeville:
Hi all,
I took a real Core 2 machine (T7200… whose motherboard was starting to die…) running Fedora 29 and dd’d the SSD over to my KVM server, then created a VM using “create from existing image”.
After some tweaking, including setting the disk type to “SATA” from “Virtio”, I got it working.
Is there a fixed recipe for virtualizing CentOS/Fedora/RHEL instances into running VM’s on KVM/Qemu?
Like re-running dracut and adding any particular drivers, etc?
It works, but I don’t know how efficient the emulation is.
The host hardware has IGB NIC’s, and I’m using “hostdev” as the network type, so that seems to be working well enough with the “igbvf” driver.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks!
CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
That probably would have been useful if I hadn’t waited until the physical instance’s motherboard started to give out…
I’ll try rebuilding with hostonly=no and adding all the virtio_* drivers I can find… Anything else I need to virtualize a host?
Thanks
On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:39 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de wrote:
Hi,
never testet by myself:
usage of virt-p2v
Viele Grüße Helmut Drodofsky
Internet XS Service GmbH Heßbrühlstraße 15 70565 Stuttgart
Geschäftsführung Helmut Drodofsky HRB 21091 Stuttgart USt.ID: DE190582774 Fon: 0711 781941 0 Fax: 0711 781941 79 Mail: info@internet-xs.de www.internet-xs.de Am 07.07.2020 um 06:22 schrieb Philip Prindeville:
Hi all,
I took a real Core 2 machine (T7200… whose motherboard was starting to die…) running Fedora 29 and dd’d the SSD over to my KVM server, then created a VM using “create from existing image”.
After some tweaking, including setting the disk type to “SATA” from “Virtio”, I got it working.
Is there a fixed recipe for virtualizing CentOS/Fedora/RHEL instances into running VM’s on KVM/Qemu?
Like re-running dracut and adding any particular drivers, etc?
It works, but I don’t know how efficient the emulation is.
The host hardware has IGB NIC’s, and I’m using “hostdev” as the network type, so that seems to be working well enough with the “igbvf” driver.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks!
CentOS-virt mailing list
CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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