Oracle are now saying that their VM is “4x cheaper and 4x more scalable” than VMware and have created a page where you can calculate how much you will save by switching to Oracle VM.
oracle vm is “cheaper and more scalable” than vmware
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vmware network adapters
vmware has quite a selection of virtual network adapters you can chose from
- vlance (amd pcnet32) nic
- vmxnet
- e1000
- vmxnet 2
- vmxnet 3
see kb.vmware.com/externalId=1001805 for full details
OVH Private Clouds from £400/m
OVH Private Clouds consist of access to a datacentre runnning VMware vCenter with hosts and storage resources and a pCC network,
VMware Server and 64 bit guests
Although VMware Server 2 should be able to support 64 bit guests it needs to be installed ontop of a 64 bit OS on a 64 bit CPU which has VT support.
For example a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz can only run 32 bit guests ! and if you try to install or run a 64 bit guest you’ll get the error message:
Message on www: This host does not support VT.You have configured this virtual machine to use a 64-bit guest operating system.However, this host is not capable of running 64-bit virtual machinesor this virtual machine has 64-bit support disabled.For more detailed information, see http://vmware.com/info?id=152
SPEC ESX v KVM results
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) have released virtualisation performance data for VMware ESX v RedHat KVM.
oracle virtual box 4 v vmware player 3
according to phoronix benchmarks there’s not much between them !
vmware tools on ubuntu 10.x
to get vmware tools to run on ubuntu 10.x you’ll need to install some extra packages
- # aptitude install build-essentials
- # aptitude install kernel-package
- # aptitude install linux-headers
vmware /proc/cpuinfo fudging
Of course vmware HAS to fudge & mangle /proc/cpuinfo (deleting “cpu cores” for example) but it just never occured to me it would !
i suppose it should have been obvious !
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1697391
PS i wonder what do KVM, VirtualBox and XEN do ?
VMware Ready VMs
VMware Ready Virtual Machine (or Virtual Appliance) begin with qualifying a VMware Ready product. Members of VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program can download the VMware Ready Program Guide and begin testing their product for this qualification.
There are a few dozen VMware Ready VMs at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/cat/521
vmware player 3.1.3
vmware player 3.1.3 is now available with better support for 64bit ed/x/ubuntu 10.10 guests and the vmmon, vmxnet and vmsock modules should now compile on guests that are using post-2.6.32 linux kernels !