Re: ZFS, Qemu, and XP & Linux clients
- From: hawk@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 20:16:03 +0000 (UTC)
In article <qDVVl.6426$Xl4.1232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rd <162144@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hawk@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> 1) Will I be able to successfully serve the ZFS file system with
permissions to the clients? (particularly, I want to avoid the problems
of complete lack of user/permission when windows uses ext2)
What about SMB for Windows and NFS for Linux?
OK; that makes sense. But won't the SMB need user input for
authentication every time a user logs into the virtual machine? Or can I
set it so that user george on windows automatically gets smb access to
/home/george and so forth without providing new credentials?
2) Will the resulting clients be "fully" networked to the host and local
network? Particulrly, XP has to be able to talk to a local network
printer (the linux driver installed nicely, but takes several minuts for
a simple document due to ghostscript, while XP prints instantly), and
linux needs to be able to run firefox on the FreeBSD screen (and
possibly to print; there may be driver problems with FreeBSD).
I haven't used XP with qemu or virtualbox at all, but I've recently
gotten Linux and Solaris running as clients in qemu VMs on a Linux
host. I'm working the same thing right now with a FreeBSD host (compiling
qemu outside of ports tree control on an older FreeBSD box).
I had the easiest time getting the networking going by using VDE: Virtual
Distributed Ethernet. I use VDE to create a vde_switch connected to a
tap device. The virtual machines have their NICs connected to the
vde_switch. At that point, it's just a matter of using the host OS networking
to perform forwarding and routing and such. The networking is ``full.''
Thanks. I'd seen a hint or three about only parts working.
Installing CentOS into a VM should look something like this:
vdeq qemu -hda centos-fbsd.img -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:40:05:07:52:30 \
-net vde,vlan=0,sock=/tmp/vde.ctl -cdrom CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso -boot d
Thanks. Is there a good/comprehensible guide for setting them up?
And can I set up the virtual linux & xp running on consoles 9 & 10, or
will they need to log into FreeBSD first? Or would that be too much to
leave running with "only" 4G of RAM and zfs?
thanks
hawk
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