[PLUG] KVM

[Daniel Herrington]

Ahh, servers me right for not checking the bios settings. AMD Virtual 
Extensions were disabled.

CentOS install took 15 minutes.

Thanks Dwight.

On 07/20/2010 10:38 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote:
> The server is a quad amd opteron 64. When I look for svm in cpuinfo:
>
> dan at arrakis:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext 
> fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 
> lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext 
> fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 
> lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext 
> fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 
> lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
> flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge 
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext 
> fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 
> lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy
>
> So the extensions are there. I'll make sure they're not disabled in 
> the bios.
>
> Dan H.
>
> On 07/20/2010 05:02 PM, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>> If the install took 10 hours I would check to make sure you're 
>> running KVM on a processor with hardware virtualization.  What you 
>> describe sounds like what I'd expect if it was falling back to using 
>> Qemu emulation instead of KVM.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daniel Herrington" <dherrington at robertmarktech.com>
>> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" 
>> <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:30:41 AM
>> Subject: [PLUG] KVM
>>
>>   All,
>>
>> I'm trying KVM out as a replacement for Vmware ESX. I have installed
>> Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 on an HP DL360. Setting up a CentOs 5.4 image, the
>> install took 10 hours. I'm guessing the problem lies in the way I've get
>> storage pools and volumes setup?
>>
>> I originally tried to do a storage pool on a  physical disk device, but
>> had trouble creating a volume on it after. Finally decided to abandon
>> that in favor of pre-formatted block device storage pool. Has anyone
>> used pre-formatted block devices with KVM before?
>>
>> My reasoning for physical disk, and then the block device storage pools
>> was I assumed it would be faster than simply a file system directory.
>> I'm curious if anybody on this list has experience with the best setup
>> for storage pools? What criteria did you use to determine which type to
>> go with?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -- 
>> Daniel B. Herrington
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>> Robert Mark Technologies
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>> Dwight Hubbard, RHCE/VCP
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>>