Installation problem with DSR2020 IP KVM switch

[fredlim]

I use Avocent DSR2020 IP KVM switch with USB connector.

I can see the boot prompt, after click Enter the installer load, but the keyboard and mouse freeze when the GUI with mouse pointer appear.

Is it possible to use text base setup instead of GUI? The DSR2020 working good with SUSE and Windows 2003, and ESX 3i.

 

[tom]

I use Avocent DSR2020 IP KVM switch with USB connector.

I can see the boot prompt, after click Enter the installer load, but the keyboard and mouse freeze when the GUI with mouse pointer appear.

Is it possible to use text base setup instead of GUI? The DSR2020 working good with SUSE and Windows 2003, and ESX 3i.

are you sure that this is related to the IP KVM switch? did you test the install without using the IP KVM switch?

 

[dietmar]

Is it possible to use text base setup instead of GUI? The DSR2020 working good with SUSE and Windows 2003, and ESX 3i.

No, there is no text based setup, soory.

What kind of grapchic card do you use? How large are your hard disks?

 

[fredlim]

The server is Dell SC1435 with HW raid and 2x300GB SAS.
Before I tried Proxmox the hardware is running SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 SP2 without any issue.

I will attach monitor and keyborad and try again. But why not offer text base setup? I like VMware ESXi installation method and work very good with KVM IP switch.

 

[fredlim]

If I attach USB mouse and keyboard I can use them both in installation screen. But fail if I switch back to IP KVM switch.

My IP KVM is Avocent DSR2020 with the latest firmware.

So my question is after install Proxmox VE, is the administration screen is still GUI? If so I will have problem as this machine will relocate to data center soon which only IP KVM available.

 

[tog]

Only the installer is a GUI, the server will become a text-based Debian Linux console after the installation is complete. Administration of your VMs is via a web-based interface provided through apache and mod_perl using https.

Unless something goes terribly wrong, you shouldn't even need the console again, you can just ssh to it and use the web interface.

 

[fredlim]

I installed Proxmox VE successfully and the console is OK with my KVM switch.

How good is the VM running Windows server? compare to VMware and XEN? I read the Oracle VM is not very good performance for Windows guest.

I ask this because I planned to deploy a workflow system which is run on .Net/SQL/Windows platform.

 

[dietmar]

We do not make benchmarks ourselfes. Also, the VMWare license forbids to publish benchmark results.

 

[fredlim]

How about compare with Oracle VM? Because Windows is one of the important guest OS, here is what stop me to use Oracle VM:

http://www.liberidu.com/blog/?p=344
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/virtualization/docs/ovm-faq.pdf <scroll down to page 5>

So is that Proxmox VE have the same issue like Oracle VM?

 

[dietmar]

I do not get your point.

First, we do not make benchmarks ourselfes.

Second, we use KVM (not Xen). Note: We use KVM because we think it is better.

Feel free to provide use with real benchmark results.

- Dietmar

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi, ProxVE uses KVM for full hardware virtualization. So windows VMs on ProxVE are as good as what you get from KVM. My experience, so far,

- single-CPU VM's for windows with KVM virtualization work great. Performance is excellent. Some folks say KVM is faster than Xen. I'm not sure this is true, but certainly it works well.

- I'm not sure if SMP is working reliably for windows VMs with KVM presently. I know there were issues (ie, instability) ~many months ago but I haven't followed this issue closely because any cases I use ProxVE with Windows VMs a single virtual CPU is more than adequate.

Hope this helps slightly; clearly it is just a 'general' level response.


Tim