Virtualization in (Free) Hyper V

[lou1z]

i'm running amahi as a test under esxi 4 and it runs well. i am going to run it permanently as a home server as its got most of the apps that i run already.
my setup is complex as i use my network for work and testing purposes as well as home use so vlans are in use.
one thing i will say is that if you are going to run virtual environments, make sure you use raid and/or a good backup. with terabytes of space available now, it would be horrible to lose it all due to a disk failure.

[salava]

i'm running amahi as a test under esxi 4 and it runs well.

Unfortunatelly, I am not able to run VMware ESXi Server on my home assembled hardware.

...make sure you use raid and/or a good backup...

Of course. Plus critical data on external disks and/or web

... disk failure...

Oh my god, I am lucky - no such event for years

[cpg]

i'm running amahi as a test under esxi 4 and it runs well. i am going to run it permanently as a home server ...

great to hear. we'd like to support virtualization more, so let us know if you have any ideas on that front!

[lou1z]

would love to give you an idea but with all the apps etc that you guyz are releasing, seems you have all bases covered! all those years i spent looking around for great apps etc and it's all coming together under one roof with a one touch install - amazing!
you would be made not to run this in your home if you have the hardware.

[thinami]

I am running Amahi on Xenserver 5.5 and it works flawlessly. I think it copes better with different systems as ESXi 4.0 would not install for anything. The system is a Quad Core HP with 6 gb of memory. Offhand, can't remember the model number because it is at a clients site. You also could look at just installing a Linux flavor and using the preinstalled Xen virtual platform. It can be managed fairly easily with Enomaly or Convirture.

[cpg]

very interesting (and great to hear that it works).

what i was wondering is whether we could somehow package a virtualization engine as an *app* on top of the OS and amahi.

it may be too heavy for now, ... maybe ...?

[renegade]

Not sure if it works fine in a Microsoft product. Microsoft has a name of hampering (or downright blocking) the install of a non-MS operating system.
You'd be better off with free VMWare server (download here: http://www.vmware.com/download/, which runs all OS-es fine as far as I know.

That really isn't accurate any more, you are speaking of the MS of old. In fact MS has made Linux kernel contributions in an effort to improve compatibility in virtualization. Fedora in particular is a lucky choice for Amahi because the Hyper-V synthetic drivers are I believe already baked into the main distro.

Switching to VMWare is not an option for some people. I already have an extensive Hyper-V setup going, which includes a mix of OS's including Linux distros.

I was able to get Amahi going in a VM with very little effort, and only hit a snag when I couldn't get it to add drives to Greyhole. I've not put any further effort in as I now will wait until the F14 release is more stable.

[lou1z]

amahi will run happily on vmware server. mine is running on esxi 4.1 and is flawless. my data is on different vmdk's (virtual drives) and i just disconnect those drives and plug them into a new fedora etc when i want to move the data. takes seconds. hardware for exsi can be limited. main thing to look for is, ram, i/o card eg perc6i etc for your hard drives and preferably gigabit network.
ultimately, you are better running on bare metal as you don't have the overheads with the hypervisor running on top of a base os

[jcouch]

You should look at proxmox for virtualization. It is Debian based and can run full KVM or normal appliances. It is free and is super powerful.