proxmox rox! Thanks for the tip. Regards, George Toft On 10/31/2012 4:49 PM, JD Austin wrote: > I second the Proxmox VE recommendation; expecially if you use the > virtio drivers. > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers > If you must have USB support then go with Virtualbox though. > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Eric Shubert > wrote: > > While I still have a couple hosts running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on > CentOS 5.x, I've given up that ship. I think you're walking on > thin ice running VMWare Server 2 on just about anything these > days, especially Windoze. I doubt you'll find much help solving > any problems with Server 2, given that VMWare has dropped it as I > expect most users have also by now. > > I highly recommend running Proxmox VE as a virtualization host > platform. It's similar to VMware Server in many ways, but I've > found it even easier to use. While it requires a cpu that supports > virtualization, that's not so hard to find these days. > > We're beginning to document the process of building a Tagcose > server based on PVE. See http://tagcose.com for details. We meet > monthly at UAT (2nd Sat) to work on Tagcose development. You're > welcome to join us if you'd like. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > > > > On 10/28/2012 01:13 PM, George Toft wrote: > > Continuing saga . . . > SMB and FTP from another physical to this virtual run at full > speed. > SMB from every Win7 box except this one runs at full speed. The > communications bog down only for SMB/FTP on the physical host > to the > VM. Next step is to build a dedicated VMware host. I > probably should > have done that to begin with, but was trying to cut down on > the number > of physical systems running. > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 10/28/2012 7:13 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > > thanks for the update! > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, George Toft > > >> wrote: > > Further investigation shows it's not FTP nor samba. > It's Windows > 7 (which I used for Windows file and FTP). Using > smbclient on a > Linux box I get 19MB/sec and FTP from Linux I get > 32MB/sec. > Concurrent with replacing the old file server was the > purchase of > a new PC. I guess we know what XP does better than > Windows 7. > > Regards, > > George Toft > > On 10/27/2012 6:01 PM, George Toft wrote: > > Spent several hours researching this one - can't > find a > solution. I hope someone here can hit me with a > clue-by-four. > > CentOS 6.3 64-bit virtual running under VMware > 2.0.2 fresh > install with FTP/Samba/NFS running. I copied > 500+GB of data > from the old computer to the new one using NFS at > full network > speed (11+ MB/sec). Life's good. > > Now here it is a day later, and my samba write > speed is a > blazing 80KB/sec (up from 40KB/s when I started > troubleshooting). I read samba should approach > FTP speed and > I verified it does - FTP writes to the new machine > at about > the same speed. Reads still take place a full > speed (now it's > on a 1Gbps network) - 33MB/sec. Writes . . . 99.8% > slower. I > did not have this problem on the previous samba > server (CentOS > 4.8 32-bit). > > I added memory (it now has 1GB RAM, 1 GB swap) and > it has 2 > CPU's. This had no effect. > > In summary, NFS works at full speed both ways. > Samba/FTP are > fast on reads but snail slow on writes. > > My next thought is to install ClearOS, test it, > and copy their > smb.conf. Or install CentOS 5.x and see if it has > the same > problems. > > Any ideas where to look on this one? smb.conf > necessary. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list > -PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss