KSM in KVM?

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donty

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Hi

I see the 1.6 release lists that it doesn't have KSM as it is not support by OpenVZ but does that mean that it is not available in the kernel to KVM either?

We use a mix of KVM and VZ so it may hit our performance with some of the more dense environments if it is not available.

Thanks for any information!

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donty said:
Hi

I see the 1.6 release lists that it doesn't have KSM as it is not support by OpenVZ but does that mean that it is not available in the kernel to KVM either?

We use a mix of KVM and VZ so it may hit our performance with some of the more dense environments if it is not available.

Thanks for any information!

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Not supported aka. broken.
 
Just seen this: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/45...-enabled-2.6.32-Kernel-...-pvetest-repository!

Think I will be patient and wait for a later kernel release but the fragmentation is getting to be a pain. We will have to start KVM only clusters or VZ only clusters if things diverge, as managing which host has what kernel within a cluster will become a pain.

Not Proxmox fault I know but it is the prospect of loosing something that once worked well together that saddens ;-)
 
Yes that is where we are at the moment, but I think we will need to make a split soon.

May just dump VZ and switch it all to KVM as that seems much more where the future development of virtualization will be headed.

Migrating to KVM wont be too bad we can put investment into kit once rather than ongoing more complicated management of a compromised end product.

Problem is there are more options for managing KVM coming along and I am not sure what focus Proxmox will have to provide stable and relatively good level of feature support in KVM if the tie is back to VZ?
 
donty said:
Yes that is where we are at the moment, but I think we will need to make a split soon.

May just dump VZ and switch it all to KVM as that seems much more where the future development of virtualization will be headed.

Migrating to KVM wont be too bad we can put investment into kit once rather than ongoing more complicated management of a compromised end product.

Problem is there are more options for managing KVM coming along and I am not sure what focus Proxmox will have to provide stable and relatively good level of feature support in KVM if the tie is back to VZ?
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Could you name one that is open source and free? I was looking for something more KVM focused, but still Proxmox is the best of them still. If they manage to reach 2.0 it will overcome features of some commercial software.
 
Not yet but there will be maturing projects over the next year or so.

I would much prefer to use a stable product developed with the kind of skills shown here with Proxmox, but that will only happen if the project is focused on what I want ;-) It must be tough for them to balance the demands of all users.
 
There are a lot of project telling that they can do just everything - mixing virtualization and cloud to create maximum confusion to the customers, huge marketing budgets, most with venture capital.

In reality, Proxmox VE is one of the first (the first?) offering KVM and OpenVZ solution also with commercial support. when we started in 2008 most did not ever heard about KVM.

In order to get a feeling about a open source project, take a look on the community forums and you will see that Proxmox VE is not bad here. And yes, 2.0 will be a major step forward, some really cool features and you can expect a lot in 2011.

Based on my knowledge, currently there are around 10.000 physical servers run Proxmox VE - growing.

And the best: if you miss a feature, just join the dev team and add it!
 
dietmar said:
Moaning here does not really help. I suggest that you post a feature request to the OpenVZ forum If you want OpenVZ and KSM.

Or add a comment on: http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623
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If I did can I moan? ;) I believe, that forum should have more categories for certain tasks/topics. Since there is One there is a big mess...

To sum up I'm really happy with Proxmox, keep that pace of development and You (we) are going to be the best.
 
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