"I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed." That would be good I have read several things but would be nice to see..... 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.... On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:05 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>wrote: > On 16 August 2010 15:55, Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> wrote: > > Just so you guys don't think I'm off my rocker...well not totally anyway > ;) > > I did come across this post in fedora forum that got me to think it might > > work.... > > > > > > Currently, I have VMware Server 2.0 and KVM on the same headless machine > > with 4G mem, AMD 4400+. It's running for a small business, therefore, I > > don't mind the performance. However, 2 win2k advance servers on the > VMware > > server 2.0, 2 win2k advance servers, a XP desktop and a m0n0wall firewall > on > > the KVM are both running fantastically. > > > > I'm a fedora fan, but the PC server which I set up is running on Debian > > Lenny (Proxmox, you guys might have heard). > > > > I believe that KVM is better, though, I don't have any benchmark on them. > > > > > > So was just wondering if anyone had tried to do this with centos....looks > > like I will give it a go, all of my clients are Linux.....centos of > various > > flavors...I'll report back what I find out... > > > > In theory it'll work if you make sure none of your vmware clients are > trying to use VMI ... it's when multiple hypervisors try to take > control of the hypervisor interface/instructions of a smv/vmx CPU that > things get messy... without VMI the vmware guests will be fully > virtualised and not trying to make use of the HVM extensions.... of > course that could effect performance a bit but might not be noticeable > over a short term.... > > I put together a simple conversion method I used at work to move from > vmware to KVM - happy t opost the instructions if needed. > > James > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100816/a2656ac6/attachment-0006.html>