So, ok, the new semester started today. As always, I’m a bit lazy on the first day so I took the opportunity to work from home instead of going to school.

It turned out be a rather ok day when I finally got out of bed. I’ve made a quick front page and a suggestion for the content in my project report. As you can read on my “Why”-page, the goal is to virtualize computer labs for students to reduce both cost and administration and at the same time deliver a better service.

After a quick look around, I chose to focus on the following virtualization solutions in the next months:

• VMware ESX/ESX(i)/Server/VDI
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Xen
• Sun Virtualbox/xVM/Solaris Containers
• VirtualIron
• Virtuozzo
• QEMU

Are there any other solutions I should look at? I know about the different IBM/HP solutions, but they requires special hardware which are pretty expensive.

Posted: August 18th, 2008 under Hardware, Hyper-V, VMware, Xen by Frode.
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Well, no success so far. As long as I stay away from installing VMware Tools I have networking, but as soon as I install the enhanced vmxnet driver the network connection is lost. I get the broadcast traffic on my network, but it does get any replies when I try DHCP. And yes, I have allowed promiscuous mode on the vSwitch. So, no luck here.

Another problem is that as soon as I boot the Xen enabled kernel, everything slows down to an almost halt. CPU usage peaks at 100%. So much for trying to make it easy to play around with Xen. I guess I have to reinstall one of my servers with a Xen enabled kernel instead…

Posted: July 17th, 2008 under VMware, Xen by Frode.
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