headless vm host

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Well kvm is entirely commandline based, at least if you use vnc or serial
> > console as the interface to the machine.  The VNC method works very well
> > for me.
> >
> 
> If it would have booted 64bit centos I'd be happy
> 
> VirtualBox had no such problems

Well I just booted the Centos 5.4 x86_64 livecd under kvm and no
crashes yet.  Lovely desktop is currently showing.

I gave it 4 CPU cores and 2GB ram and it sees all that.  So no problem
under this version of KVM at least.

# kvm --help|head -n1
QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

# uname -a
Linux rceng01 2.6.32-bpo.4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 13 00:05:30 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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