headless vm host

[Dave Cramer]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:48:32AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> I did manage to get kvm working headless but when I went to install
>> centos 5.4 64bit it hung.
>>
>> It appears that CentOS is using a fairly old version of kvm and even
>> newer versions seem to have problems with 64 bit guests.
>>
>> I'm back to looking at virtual box.
>
> Hmm, I thought I had run a 64bit OS as a guest on kvm.  Of course I am
> running 0.12.3 with 2.6.32 kernel, so it is quite new.
>
> If the Centos's netinstall wasn't so flacky (having recently installed
> the 32bit version under kvm) I would try it out, but it is way too much
> effort to get going.
>
> --
I'm trying to avoid the bleeding edge here ... using CentOS 5.4 as the
base system

The biggest problem with the bleeding edge is upgrading hosts

This is a subject I would like to see covered at sometime. Upgrading distros

Dave
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