KVM now achieves 85% of bare-metal performance
On popular Czech Linux sites ABC Linuxu was recently published interesting comparison KVM vs XEN:
August 28, 2010
June 8, 2010
Paper: The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance of Amazon EC2
Interesting research of Virtualization impact to Networking.
The Impact of Virtualization on Network Performance of Amazon EC2 Data Center
May 25, 2010
Release: Open vSwitch reaches 1.0
Hmmm!!! IBM wants KVM to become a world class hypervisor ???
IBM wants KVM to become a world class hypervisor
KVM is getting more and more popular, I saw some recent interesting comparisons, like this one in Czech Language:
February 11, 2010
July 24, 2008
Convert and Import VM Virtual Disk
This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox
4 Steps for importing VMware VM or Virtual Appliance into VirtualBox
This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox
- Use Virtual Disk in VMDK format or convert it to VirtualBox native VDI format
- Create VM definition based on VMware VM defintinons
- Boot Solaris OS in recovery mode and fix if needed HW and Drivers definitions
- Uninstall VMware Guest tools, install VirtualBox Guest Additions
Importing Solaris VMware VM into Virtual Box
This entry is part of Mastering Sun xVM VirtualBox Workshop
Mastering Sun VirtualBox
Here I will try to summarize advanced tips with Sun VirtualBox I learn personally or get from my colleagues, if is not explicitly stated VirtualBox version is 1.6.x release, new is reffed 2.2.x. To be able to demonstrate all VirtualBox 1.6.x/2.2.x features I will use by default “close source” binary version.
- Importing Solaris VMware VM into Virtual Box
- VMware VMs & VirtualBox
- VMware VMs & Virtual Appliances formats
- Inspecting Solaris VMware Virtual Appliance configuration
- VirtualBox 1.6.2 & VMware formats
- 4 Steps for importing VMware VM or Virtual Appliance into VirtualBox
- 1. Convert & Import VM Virtual Disk
- 1. a) Use Virtual Disk in VMDK format directly in VirtualBox
- 1. b) Convert VMware VMDK to VirtualBox native VDI format
- 2. Create VirtualBox VM definition based on VMware VM definition
- 3. Fix HW difference between VMware and VirtualBox VM
- Process FIX For Solaris 10 using Recovery Console
- Process FIX for OpenSolaris 200805 using Live-CD
- Process FIX for OpenSolaris 200811 using Live-CD
- 4. Uninstall VMware Guest tools, install VirtualBox Guest Additions (Use related products docs)
- VirtualBox Virtual HW compatibility improvements
- Using Solaris iSCSI target in VirtualBox iSCSI Initiator
May 13, 2008
Determining OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS configuration
Get list of PKGs for OpenSolaris 200805 CLI JeOS RNJS confguration , focusing on xVM or XEN para VM, so we can also skip all HW drivers, Hura !
This entry is part of ‘OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2′ Workshop
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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode
Simple 12 steps for installing OpenSolaris 2008.05 into xVM or XEN VM in PARA mode, in
This entry is part of ‘OpenSolaris on Amazon EC2′ Workshop
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May 5, 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.05 released, use os200805.iso in Virtual Environments
[http://www.sun.com/launch/ OpenSolaris 2008.05 released] , two distribution Live CD media are available:
| os200805.iso | GZIP compression | Primary Languages |
| os200805g.iso | LZMA compression | All Languages |
Install of GZIP based media os200805.iso is reported to be faster in Virtual Environments like xVM, VirtualBOX, Vmware or Paralles.
Note: You can add languages later from pkg.opensolaris.org network repository with pkg install
For example to add Czech language support install these packages: pkg search -r -s | grep Czech SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-cs GNOME software message files for Czech SUNWlang-cs Czech language support pkg install SUNWlang-cs SUNWgnome-l10nmessages-cs
Hint: You can also try OpenSolaris 2008.05 on many platforms using just released SUN VirtualBox version 1.6
