Having a seamless experience with a host OS running a KVM-guest that gets full access to a GPU by PCI passthrough does come with some hurdles. These are some takeaways from setting it all up. VFIO is a modern way of passing through PCI-devices from the host to a virtual machine. IOMMU must be enabled … Read More →
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Converting VM from ESXi to KVM with iSCSI storage
The ESXi-host is using an iSCSI-target as storage provider. The KVM-host has local storage but is also connected to the iSCSI-network. This is how I went about migrating a couple of virtual machines running different operating systems between the two hypervisors. Mount the iSCSI-target on the KVM-host The KVM-host need to be set up as … Read More →
Deploying oVirt in self-hosted mode
Deploying the virtualisation platform oVirt can be quite cumbersome. These are my installation notes on how to set it up in self-hosted mode where the engine-server runs as a guest in a VM instead of running on the host itself – much like the vCenter server of VMWare. Pre-install tasks As my network-setup consists of … Read More →
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