Virtual Machines

Deanimator

I've got more than ten years of exprience building small Linux servers (mostly Samba), and the occasional desktop.

I've decided to get my RHCE and am putting together the tools that I need to study.

I inherited a former boss's Samba server which I built, after I built him a newer one last year.

I've installed CentOS on it, but after setting it up, I've discovered that I will need to run KVM for virtual machines and neither the processor (nor I believe, the motherboard) support AMD-V.

Does anyone have any suggestions for overcoming this problem?

Is it something which will probably prevent me from passing the test?

Thanks in advance.

JoseJimenez

What processor/and motherboard is it?
Anyway, if that is really the case I would use Xen paravirtualization instead. Managing tools are the same (virsh, virt-manager).
More info on setting up Xen hypervisor (Dom0):
HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart - CentOS Wiki

There is also great book from "No Starch Press": The book of Xen.

Deanimator

JoseJimenez wrote: »

What processor/and motherboard is it?
Anyway, if that is really the case I would use Xen paravirtualization instead. Managing tools are the same (virsh, virt-manager).
More info on setting up Xen hypervisor (Dom0):
HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart - CentOS Wiki

There is also great book from "No Starch Press": The book of Xen.

I'm in the office right now, but from memory:

Processor: Athlon X64 3000+
Motherboard: ECS NForce4 A939

I talked to the person I got the system from yesterday, and if it does hardware virtualization, I can borrow the new server I built for as long as I need it, since he had to move to a smaller office, doesn't have any place to set it up, and doesn't expect to use it as a server again. I'll be setting it up in his office tomorrow night and checking it for hardware virtualization capability.

JoseJimenez

Yeah, I think AMD-V went mainstream with socket AM2. Also, this is single core ... not a very good choice for multiple VMs.