{"id":1069,"date":"2011-02-21T12:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tom.scholten.nu\/weblog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:44:45","slug":"over-to-kvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.scholten.nu\/weblog\/2011\/02\/21\/over-to-kvm","title":{"rendered":"Over to KVM"},"content":{"rendered":"

3270<\/wpg2>This weekend, after an earlier failed attempt, I’ve managed to change one of the servers to KVM<\/a> as virtual machines platform. The first server is done and many will follow. Besides stability my main focus was manageability, the old platform ran (or runs, as not all are transferred yet) on VMware Server. A nice free product but only manageable from Windows as a platform and even on there it became worse every month. KVM ensures management using VNC, command-line or even webinterfaces and with that is more platform independent.
\nBesides that KVM offers the ability to better virtualisation per virtual machine and is also more lightweight in use. The only issue I’ve encountered so far is a test-windows7 install which proved not to work on KVM. It did on qemu but locked out one processor on 100% use and even that wouldn’t give a workable\/performing virtual machine. Testing an XP one did work, w2k8 still to be determined. At least the FreeBSD’s and Linux hosts work more than fine – but those are obviously the production ones. Windows was fine for testing, but we’ll leave it at that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Below more information on my transition, despite being documented all over the internet I’ve had to visit multiple sites to properly deploy and migrate. Even though there are various small things not working (described below) but at least KVM runs and the virtual machines are running very fine and without any issues.
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Setup<\/p>\n