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[#] Sat Jul 10 2021 08:16:57 EDT from Nurb432

Subject: PVE 7

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I missed the notice, but PVE 7 is out



[#] Sat Jul 10 2021 13:53:40 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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I might upgrade on my test machine. I've seen people complaining about it breaking things. 

 

Sat Jul 10 2021 08:16:57 EDT from Nurb432 Subject: PVE 7

I missed the notice, but PVE 7 is out



 



[#] Sat Jul 10 2021 14:10:29 EDT from Nurb432

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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ooo not good.

I suppose a fresh install if it solves those problems isn't bad.  Just build new server and add it to the cluster, hot move your VMs over ( or if you can have down time, just shut them down and copy them to some storage, rebuild all the hosts then copy them back ) then shut down 6.x, then rinse repeat until all 6.x are gone  ( i know, a little more involved than that, but the idea is there )

 

Sat Jul 10 2021 01:53:40 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: PVE 7

I might upgrade on my test machine. I've seen people complaining about it breaking things. 

 



[#] Tue Jul 13 2021 15:35:27 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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It is one of those cases where I don't see why I should upgrade if what I have is working. At least, not presently. 

I do have the luxury of building out a test unit, migrating the currently running VM to it, then just swapping that out with the production hardware. 

 

 

Sat Jul 10 2021 14:10:29 EDT from Nurb432 Subject: Re: PVE 7

ooo not good.

I suppose a fresh install if it solves those problems isn't bad.  Just build new server and add it to the cluster, hot move your VMs over ( or if you can have down time, just shut them down and copy them to some storage, rebuild all the hosts then copy them back ) then shut down 6.x, then rinse repeat until all 6.x are gone  ( i know, a little more involved than that, but the idea is there )

 

Sat Jul 10 2021 01:53:40 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: PVE 7

I might upgrade on my test machine. I've seen people complaining about it breaking things. 

 



 



[#] Fri Jul 16 2021 12:00:37 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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Take it as an opportunity to learn KVM for real and drop the crutches!

virt-manager is all you really need.

 



[#] Fri Jul 16 2021 12:09:37 EDT from Nurb432

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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On desktops that is what i use..  its what im using for my 'shop' vm. 

 

But on servers, i still stick with PVE ( used to be xenserver.. until citrix started playing games. tho there is a oss fork, i still didnt trust them )



[#] Fri Jul 16 2021 16:40:43 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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I looked at Virt-Manager  - and it looks like a lot of "lite" Linux GUI type solutions. Very bare and minimal. 

I like a little more polished of an interface - and PVE is pretty comparable to Xenserver or ESXi in fit and finish. If I have to sit in front of something - it should be aesthetically pleasant to work with. 


Fri Jul 16 2021 12:09:37 EDT from Nurb432 Subject: Re: PVE 7

On desktops that is what i use..  its what im using for my 'shop' vm. 

 

But on servers, i still stick with PVE ( used to be xenserver.. until citrix started playing games. tho there is a oss fork, i still didnt trust them )



 



[#] Fri Jul 16 2021 16:48:37 EDT from Nurb432

Subject: Re: PVE 7

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To be fair, its what its meant to be. Enough GUI to get the job done. If you need advanced stuff its CLI.  But i will say that on the machines i run it on ( 'workstations' ), other than copying around images for backups and such, i dont think i have ever needed anything that it cant do via the interface.  

But i do agree, PVE is more advanced, but its also meant to be more data center oriented. 

Fri Jul 16 2021 04:40:43 PM EDT from ParanoidDelusions Subject: Re: PVE 7

I looked at Virt-Manager  - and it looks like a lot of "lite" Linux GUI type solutions. Very bare and minimal. 

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[#] Fri Jul 16 2021 21:53:45 EDT from Nurb432

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Hmm pve7 is based on Debian 11, which has not been released yet.

 

While i have been using it on my desktop ( and my RK3399 boards to get OSS GPU support ) for a while now without issue, i donno if that is a good idea for a production server environment. 



[#] Sat Jul 17 2021 15:25:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I looked at Virt-Manager  - and it looks like a lot of "lite" Linux
GUI type solutions. Very bare and minimal. 

Well, if you're going to keep trashing Linux then I suggest you use Hyper-V.
:|

Virt-Manager is *intended* to be "very bare and minimal". It's simple and it gets the job done without creating any dependencies on itself. This is because it's just a front end to libvirtd on the host system(s).

It's also why I stopped using PVE. As beautiful as it is, it insists on running KVM directly instead of going through libvirtd. You could compare this to all the people who wrote software in the early 1980's that accessed the IBM PC hardware directly instead of strictly adhering to the MS-DOS system calls. Sure, you could do some really neat things, but you just made your software incompatible with non-IBM hardware.

It's your choice, of course. I prefer knowing that my virtual machines just sit there and run in the background even when the management software isn't active.

[#] Sun Jul 18 2021 05:40:39 EDT from darknetuser

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2021-07-16 12:09 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: PVE 7
On desktops that is what i use..  its what im using for my 'shop'
vm. 

 

But on servers, i still stick with PVE ( used to be xenserver.. until

citrix started playing games. tho there is a oss fork, i still didnt

trust them )


I am not that familiar with Xen. I have the memory of using it as a backend of some prettyfied GUI solution some years ago, and that is it.

Which games do you say Citrix is playing?

[#] Sun Jul 18 2021 08:34:16 EDT from Nurb432

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Short version is they went the 'its all free and you can pay us support'. That was the standard for many years, making it viable for people who didnt need support but liked the product. ( like me ) Then a few years ago they started removing features from the 'free' version. 

Since it was based on RedHat, there was a team that  rebuilt it all from source and added those pieces back in. Seemed to work out well, and its viable,  but its still a long term risk. they built their business off it as they sell some sort of web front end to manage it. And i guess they saw the ramification of losing customers since people were paying for them but not citrix. Last i heard citrx only supported a windows management GUI, in a VM. ludicrous. 

But as soon as they started dropping features, i went elsewhere. I had been using kvm on workstations, so that was the logical place to go. After looking at several options, PVE seemed like the best choice for an 'enterprise' environment.  Was a pain to migrate my customers, and the features lost at first i didnt need, but well worth it anyway. ( i still have a couple left, i had pretty much stopped doing work on my own. Too busy at the office to be fair to them )



[#] Sun Jul 18 2021 18:43:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Years ago they acquired cloud.com (now "Citrix Cloud Services") and open sourced the software "CloudStack" hoping to make a big splash in that space. CloudStack worked pretty well with Xen but it sucked at managing KVM and was borderline unusable with VMware. They donated the code base to the Apache Foundation (aka "where open source projects go to die"). Anyone really working in that space now is probably using OpenStack. Anyone looking for finished products to build a cloud service is using either VMware Cloud Director or stuff slapped on top of one of the Beasts of Seattle clouds.

I hate the word "cloud" by the way. It's too ambiguous.

[#] Sun Jul 18 2021 18:53:22 EDT from Nurb432

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I think that is intentional 

Sun Jul 18 2021 06:43:30 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: PVE 7

I hate the word "cloud" by the way. It's too ambiguous.

 



[#] Mon Jul 19 2021 08:00:02 EDT from Nurb432

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Oh,and if you have bandwidth for it. running virt-manager and connecting to a remote server that is running a desktop VM, is usable.  Its not like the 'real thing' but good enough.    to get a tiny bit more i have run X2GO across, but that is extra overhead.

its how i get around the problem of losing internal network as soon as i connect to the office VPN on the shop VM.  Before they did that, RDP was the most viable option, which of course is faster.

 

 



[#] Mon Jul 19 2021 15:58:51 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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I'm not trashing Linux - I'm simply saying that there is a Linux paradigm that isn't my preference for user and administration experiences. In fact, the cool thing about Linux is that it has the flexibility to be as bare, spartan, minimal and low resource as you desire, while also being as much graphical interface overkill as I desire. 

It simplifies management for me - in that I do not have to relearn obscure things I don't work with daily every time I revisit the platform or it requires maintenance or admin intervention. It involves resource overhead for that convenience - but it is a trade off that works well for me, and I am not bothered (or probably even aware) of the downsides in most cases. 

I've got a hot spare ready to take a backup and return to the last known good backup image in a matter of minutes, just ready to go. Because I don't want to be a Linux Admin guru - I want to run a BBS for the handful of users who call in to it. 

I do other things on the ACTUAL Linux VM that runs Citadel that you would consider a waste of resources and unnecessary overhead too - solely for my convenience. I could make it far more lean and efficient and minimal - all of it - but those extra cycles are all burned to make things EASIER for me. I don't have the training wheels because I can't ride the bike without them, but because it makes it less work to ride the bike in general. ;) 

 

Sat Jul 17 2021 15:25:24 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: PVE 7
I looked at Virt-Manager  - and it looks like a lot of "lite" Linux
GUI type solutions. Very bare and minimal. 

Well, if you're going to keep trashing Linux then I suggest you use Hyper-V.
:|

Virt-Manager is *intended* to be "very bare and minimal". It's simple and it gets the job done without creating any dependencies on itself. This is because it's just a front end to libvirtd on the host system(s).

It's also why I stopped using PVE. As beautiful as it is, it insists on running KVM directly instead of going through libvirtd. You could compare this to all the people who wrote software in the early 1980's that accessed the IBM PC hardware directly instead of strictly adhering to the MS-DOS system calls. Sure, you could do some really neat things, but you just made your software incompatible with non-IBM hardware.

It's your choice, of course. I prefer knowing that my virtual machines just sit there and run in the background even when the management software isn't active.

 



[#] Tue Aug 24 2021 09:04:53 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I really wish PVE included a Kubernetes implementation.  They insist on sticking with LXC.  Nobody uses that anymore.  Virtualization + Ceph/RADOS is already a great start.



[#] Tue Aug 24 2021 17:31:27 EDT from Nurb432

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Not questioning the statement, but i wonder if they have ever taken a poll on people using LXC over KVM with their product.  It may be a mostly unused feature, legacy cruft.

I know i'm not, but i'm 1 person. 

 

Tue Aug 24 2021 09:04:53 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: PVE 7

I really wish PVE included a Kubernetes implementation.  They insist on sticking with LXC.  Nobody uses that anymore.  Virtualization + Ceph/RADOS is already a great start.



 



[#] Mon Aug 30 2021 09:09:15 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Before LXC made it into the mainline kernel, I was using OpenVZ (the free version of Virtuozzo), which was basically the same thing, to run container-based virtualization on a server that didn't support hardware VT (this was back in 2007 or so, and we had a lot of hardware lying around that was still good but didn't have VT).

It looks like they're still around: "Each container performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; a container can be rebooted
independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications,
system libraries and configuration files."

So the idea is that the containers are intended to look like full virtual machines, rather than small environments to execute a single application.
The big restriction, of course, is that the guest operating system must be running the same kernel as the host operating system, so if you have a mixed Linux/Windows stack it isn't the right solution. If you're willing to live with that restriction, though, it's far more efficient on memory usage than a full hypervisor.

[#] Tue Oct 19 2021 00:13:44 EDT from ParanoidDelusions

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Just upgraded my VM box to 16GB of memory. 

Noticed that I get a nice visual record of system downtime in the console view. 



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