Proxmox setup on Xen HVM VPS ?

[XZed]

Hello all,

I subscribed to a Xen HVM VPS. I'm trying different setups/OS.

But, one i'd really like to do : setup an online Proxmox .

Well, i prefer things clear : i don't want replies such as "why make such a thing : virtualization in virtualization ??". This type of answer never gives any extra knowledge :/ ...

When installation begins, i have this message :



It refers to my Xen virtual disk : but i didn't find any result/explanation about it :/ ...

In the background, setup has stopped at this point :



As you can see, i have been inspired by this link .

As extra informations, these are additional boot logs :



The output of the command : "cat /sys/block/xvda/removable" is "0".

I tried, without success, many things as repartitioning xvda disk, etc...

Setup behaves as if LVM partitioning wasn't accepted/supported.

But, to check that i setup, with success, Debian 6 setup with LVM partitioning...all ran smoothly...

I don't know if Proxmox setup is tweakable in order to avoid forced LVM paritioning, just to check different behaviors..

By the way, i don't like setting up Proxmox over previous Debian installation.

Has anyone already setup Proxmox on a Xen HVM VPS (or as any usual Xen guest) ?

Thank you,

Sincerely,

XZed

 

[p3x-749]

...I'd try that route: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Lenny.

AFAIK, if you succeed, you'd be limited to use OpenVZ containers only, because KVM cannot be run in a nested VM environment.

 

[XZed]

because KVM cannot be run in a nested VM environment.

Thank you (well that makes sense but i considered it and was conscious about this limit).

By the way, do you think it will be good if i run Proxmox on a KVM VPS ?

 

[p3x-749]

By the way, do you think it will be good if i run Proxmox on a KVM VPS ?

...not sure if I understand correctly...installing Proxmox on a KVM based VPS will still create a nested VM environment.
AFAIK nested KVM support is planned for future KVM releases and still far from a "production use" state.

...so, if you can wait until nested KVM is ready...and then find a KVM VPS provider who would allow for that (enables that feature...one could think that it imposes
a certain risk to the providers operations)...yes, it then would/could be an advantage at that time.
..as of your choices of today...I'd doubt that...if you want to fully use Proxmox now, go for a dedicated server.
...if you can live with OpenVZ alone, you can as well stick with you XEN VPS provider...you should be able to migrate to a KVM VPS later

 

[XZed]

Thank you very much, once more !

I'll search documentation/articles about nested KVM feature !

Indeed, initially i wanted to opt for a VDS w/ Proxmox but didn't find less than ~15€/month ...

Well, the first difficulty : find providers featuring Proxmox, even i found some.

I imagine that price/month is a value that each one will consider cheap/expensive, but, for the moment, i wasn't considering such a price .

Thank you anyway !!!

 

[udo]

By the way, do you think it will be good if i run Proxmox on a KVM VPS ?

No...
you don't get the right performance (IO/CPU). This is perhaps nice for testing, but in real life the fun ends.

Udo

 

[XZed]

Even if i was conscious and considering testing purposes over performances, thank you to declare it !