On 01/17/2017 08:01 AM, ProPAAS DBA wrote:
- does anyone have experiences good and bad with KVM? Any gotcha's or common issues I should be aware of?
I've been using KVM exclusively since Red Hat stopped shipping Xen dom0 kernels. It works the way I expect it to and hasn't given me any grief.
- Is is easy / possible to convert a VMware workstation VM to a KVM?
That probably depends on the client OS, making sure the bootloader and drivers are available. Converting the disk image is pretty straightforward, using "qemu-img".
- With VMware I get the vmnet network and I don't have to do anything other than select nat, bridged, etc to get networking in place for a VM, even if I want to access te VM directly from another machine (i.e. not the local only network). Is this true with KVM as well?
NAT support will be present automatically. If you want to use bridged networking, you'll need a bridge interface. You can create one by running "virsh iface-bridge eth0 br0", which would create a new interface named "br0" with the IP configuration previously assigned to "eth0". eth0 would then be enslaved to br0, as will the interfaces of any VMs you create with bridged networking.
- If I decide later to remove it does it remove cleanly? I dislike the vmnet & other bits VMware leaves around even after an uninstall
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