Long Long time ago I wrote how I migrated from Xen to OpenVZ. This post will show you how to manage your VE memory.
First you set the veid=yournumberofve and the rest is copy paste ; Look at the examples:
Continue reading ‘OpenVZ adjust RAM’
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I have a tiny embedded server (acrosser model) Intel Celeron with only 400MHz and 512MB Mem total. Before I upgraded debian to squeeze I used Xen, now its time to use OpenVZ.
Reasons:
- My tiny hardware:)
- Container virtualization – I can use more virtual machines
- Less memory usage – Container cannot boot
OpenVZ kernel and the vzctl and vzquota packages are available in the Debian repositories, so we can install them as follows:
Continue reading ‘Debian squeeze install OpenVZ’
There are a lot virtual emulators for windows, but most of them aren’t free and forbidden for commercial use. QEMU emulator released under GPL-license and works very well on windows. (I tested it only Windows Server 2003)
You can be downloaded from here – clickme
Some days ago I started to give up my VMWare Workstation Server (version: 6.5.1 build-126130) that is running on Debian Lenny.
The reason was it’s very difficult to upgrade (you see my installation is a little bit outdated:)) and maintain.
The first step is to migrate to VirtualBox running. And I wrote this little tutorial to migrate VMWare VMDK Image to VirtualBox.
Step 1:
Start Virtualbox
Step 2:
File -> Virtual Media Manager
Continue reading ‘Convert VMware Image .vmdk to VirtualBox Image .vdi’
I was playing again a little bit with KVM virtualization and found one very strange thing, my KVM kills guests instead of properly shutdown.
KVM just sends an ACPI signal to the guest to tell it to shut down. Of course, this means the guest needs to do something useful when it receives the signal. By default Debian/Ubuntu guests don’t understand ACPI signals.
The solution is: install acpid in each guest.
1 | aptitude update ; aptitude install acpid |
After installing this, the ’shutdown’ and ‘reboot’ buttons worked perfectly!