[GRLUG] Walk-on VMWare

[Michael Mol]

I don't know if it's common, but you can grant full control of, e.g. a
video card to ESX if your hardware has an IOMMU.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:11 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> Visited a new client this AM, .. they had a pretty sweet setup - 5 VMs
> separated into services (web, email, ..), separate physical Windoze
> box.
>
> They have a user & root login to the machine that responds to the monitor
> & keyboard, but it has no ssh key traces of connection to the other
> four machines.
>
> Apparently, they have a VMWare environment (recognized name over Xen or
> VirtualBox - the system was built two years ago), however I see no
> evidence OF the environment - the console is connected to the first VM,
> and no evidence of ssh config to the other four machines.
>
> Have not done much VMWare or bare metal virtualization myself, .. is this
> common in the VMWare world?
>
> Assuming there is a DOM0 in place, why would it not be connected to the
> console? How does one connect with the VMWare hypervisor, or to the VMs
> for maintenance work?
>
>        Lee
>
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