Xen, QEMU/KVM or Vmware ?

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

This is what I used to create a guest OS on F7 x86_64, where guest OS
is Win2k x86.:

http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/HOWTO

Works fine. Even connect to the internet from the win2k guest OS
works. Only thing is that you have to include the --win2k-hack ( can't
remember the exact syntax ) argument with qemu.

I run the guest OS from the command-line as a non-root user, and never
used any of the GUI.


Regards,

John

On 23/08/07, John Lagrue <jlagrue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/08/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > John Lagrue wrote:
> > > Being quite keen on the concept of virtualisation, I find myself in a
> > > bit of a quandary with F7.
> > >
> > > Being one who needs an uptodate kernel (my laptop power does funny
> > > things with older ones) I can't run Xen because the kernels are too
> > > old. Therefore I have QEMU/KVM or Vmware.
> > >
> > > Though the F7 documents talk lightly about QEMU being all part of the
> > > Virtual Machine Manager, it isn't really; the resulting systems are
> > > slow, refuse to boot off valid ISO images and have no configuration
> > > options for networking. They don't even use the system CDROM until you
> > > specifically add it after the virtual machine is built. So I use
> > > qemu-kvm on the command line; not that the Fedora documents mention
> > > that option - thank heaven for Google!
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora7VirtQuickStart is referenced
> > from the docs site.
> >
> > libvirt and associated tools like virsh and virt-manager provide a
> > neutral interface to all underlying VM technologies they support
> > including Qemu, KVM and Xen.
> >
> > Rahul
>
> They *say* they do, but in actual fact they don't work very well at all.
>
> Try running virsh without Xen and all you get is "error: no valid
> connection" when you try to do anything!
>
> virt-manager works after a fashion, but gives errors galore, crashes
> and a generated guest won't even boot off a valid .ISO file that
> qemu-kvm had no trouble with. Even after using qemu-kvm to install the
> guest, virt-manager still won't work properly. The resulting guest
> won't connect to the external network, the mouse is terribly sticky,
> and the manager refuses to reconnect to a running guest. All-in-all,
> it's a bit of bad news if you're not running Xen.
>
> JDL
>
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