quick dirty test env on top of VMWare

pemadiot

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Hello,

I'm looking into setup a tiny test proxmox/ceph cluster on top of a set of 3 machines hosted inside VM-Ware.
Currently they are CentOS and the idea was to install Stock Debian Buster, and install Proxmox repo to install V6 and test upgrade to V7.

As a pre-validation investigation, i installed on CentOS the virtualisation packages to run the following test.
# virt-host-validate
QEMU : Vérification for hardware virtualization : FAIL (Only emulated CPUs are available, performance will be significantly limited)
QEMU : Vérification if device /dev/vhost-net exists : PASS
QEMU : Vérification if device /dev/net/tun exists : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'memory' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'memory' controller mount-point : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpu' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpu' controller mount-point : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller mount-point : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuset' controller mount-point : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'devices' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'devices' controller mount-point : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'blkio' controller support : PASS
QEMU : Vérification for cgroup 'blkio' controller mount-point : PASS
WARN (Unknown if this platform has IOMMU support)
LXC : Vérification pour Linux >= 2.6.26 : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace ipc : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace mnt : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace pid : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace uts : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace net : PASS
LXC : Vérification for namespace user : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'memory' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'memory' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpu' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpu' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuacct' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuset' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'cpuset' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'devices' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'devices' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'blkio' controller support : PASS
LXC : Vérification for cgroup 'blkio' controller mount-point : PASS
LXC : Vérification if device /sys/fs/fuse/connections exists : PASS


It seems that HW Virtualisation is not available, regardless of the performance hit, is this configuration of the Host Virtual HW (as made available by underlying VMWare hypervisor) compatible for the kind of test i'd like to carry out?
Or should i ask the VMWare hypervisor manager to reform the host to include HW virtualisation and other tunning necessary for te kind of test i'm looking for.

best regards
 
well nevermind, IT VMWare team enabled HW virtualization, and i could proceed install proxmox v 6.4 test cluster on stock debian buster
 

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