On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 1/7/2011 7:02 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> >>> >>> I was testing it with KVM, for comparison to VMWare, and didn't get as >>> far as that. The network configuration, multiple disk at install time, >>> and dog-slow performance of KVM prevented further exploration. KVM was >>> being heavily advertised by RedHat so I wanted a look, and was >>> completely underwhelmed. The requisite "bridged" network ports have to >>> be set manually on the server, since the built-in network >>> configuration tools have no clue how to do it. This means network >>> pair-bonding has to be done in the guest domain, and it turned out >>> that PXE didn't work at all in the guests. >> >> I haven't tried that, but wouldn't you bridge the bond device instead of >> bonding bridged nics? > > That would make sense, but it didn't work at all. I assume this is > because the features are simply not simultaneously supportable. > > Neither VMWare, Xen, nor VirtualBox require the "bridged" network > ports, so it was a major configuration failing in KVM. I found its X interface so unstable as to be unusable on most X servers, whether CygWin, Xceed, VNC, or Xorg on a similar OS release laptop I was working with. What X server are you using?