Hypervisior에서 사용하는 메모리는 ESXi서버의 경우 VMkernel이 모두 가져가게 되며, ESX서버의 경우는 VMkernel과 서비스 콘솔이 가져 갑니다(서비스 콘솔에서의 기본 메모리영역 300MB를 제외하고는 모두 VMkernel이 가져갑니다.) 가상메모리는 실제 물리적 메모리보다 더 많은 메모리를 사용할 수 있도록 해주는 것입니다. 많이 들어본 스왑(Swap) 메모리가 가상메모리입니다. VMkernel은 모든 Virtual Machine들이 실제로 자신은 연속된 물리적인 메모리를 가지고 있다는 착각을 주어야합니다. 그리고 게스트 가상 메모리 주소의 위치가 최종적으로는 호스트(실제 서버)물리…
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Setting up ESXi for running Apple Mac OS X
We all know that Mac OS is extremely popular with users. However, Mac OS can only be used with Mac machines. Now it’s easy to migrate Mac OS 10.12 into a virtual machine. Follow the simple steps to achieve it. VMware ESXi 6.0 doesn’t support OS X out of the box. So, the first thing you need to do is…
Howto Convert Vmware Image to Virtualbox Image or Import Vmware Image into Virtualbox
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualBox is a virtual emulator…
How I converted a VMware VM to KVM
There’s lots of info on the net on achieving that, but I found it a bit too scattered, and had to combine instructions from multiple sources. I’m not certain it’s the right way, but it worked™. So I’ll share, and get your feedback in case I’ve done anything stupid: Convert VMDKs (VM’s disk), even when having multiple files, to qcow2 format (note:…