Monthly Archives: September 2011

Update: Extended Page Table (EPT) Required for Illumos KVM!

Posted on September 29, 2011 by jgrafton

The Intel Extended Page Table (EPT) feature is required for Illumos KVM.  That means you’ll need a recent Intel processor (Core i3, i5, i7 or newer Xeon) to use KVM on OpenIndiana or SmartOS.  Unfortunately, a processor that supports VT … Continue reading →

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Installing KVM and Creating a Debian VM in OpenIndiana 151a

Posted on September 25, 2011 by jgrafton

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) was developed in Linux as a very speedy in-kernel virtualization solution that takes advantage of Intel’s VT and AMD’s V technology. Recently, it was ported to Open Solaris derived operating systems such as Joyent’s SmartOS and … Continue reading →

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Wow… Seriously awesome!

Posted on September 17, 2011 by jgrafton

For experiment sake, I decided to duplicate my newly created RHEL session using ZFS.  My Fedora and RHEL virtual instances each live on their own zvol.  As you can see below, each VM has a zvol named disk0: # zfs … Continue reading →

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Installing RHEL 5.5 and Fedora 13 in OpenIndiana 151a KVM

Posted on September 17, 2011 by jgrafton

KVM is really quick on my VT enabled Dual Xeon 5506 system running Open Indiana 151a. I have to say this is very nice work by the Open Indiana / Joyent / Illumos teams!  Here’s a screen shot of RHEL … Continue reading →

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Compiling Illumos in OpenIndiana 151

Posted on September 4, 2011 by jgrafton

My primary Illumos build workstation is a new-ish Core i5-2500K.  To begin tinkering with the Illumos kernel, I installed Open Indiana 151 using the dev-il repository.  The build process works great on OI-151 up to the point where you upgrade … Continue reading →

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