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On 06/11/06 21:12:11, John Horne wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 09:30 +0000, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > I have found the term I need to search for which is p2v (private to > > > virtual I guess) > > > Well done, you found p2v before I could mention it. > 'physical-to-virtual' - i.e. take a physical system already set up > and > convert it to a virtual one. We are considering this for some of our > servers at work (under vmware though :-( ). > Does not work for us... :-( You have to use a 'xenised' kernel unless you have a cpu that supports full virtulization.. To summarize what I know so far... qemu: Does not support the host pci bus, it emulates the obvious ones, so useless if you want to support some wacky pci card xen: Can run in para or full virtual mode supports the host pci bus para... need a kernel that has been compiled with xen full... can run any kernel, but needs a particular cpu even then the bios might not support the functionality. Probably the cpu is hideously expensive, on the 40 machines I checked, none of the would support full virtulization. vmware: Have not gone then yet, seems it will support any kernel without a recompile, but does it support the host pci bus. So all in all virtulization is not the as good as it seems, has its uses I suppose but you need to be careful what you want to do with it. We are trying to support an EOL card that is currently on a 2.2 kernel. I am now installing fc5 and down grading the kernel, without much sucess I might add. -- 'ooroo stinga...(:)-) --------------------------------------------------- Email: stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx o You need only two tools. o ///// A hammer and duct tape. If it /@ `\ /) ~ doesn't move and it should, > (O) X< ~ Fish!! use the hammer. If it moves and `\___/' \) ~ shouldn't, use the tape. \\\ --------------------------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html