What Hypervisors have you tried LTM VE in?

I'm using VirtualBox with no issues. Works great. Using it as my iRules/iControls development environment.

VMWare Server 2.0.2, Linux Fedora 11 - Not very stable... But that may be the VMWare Server itself, as I lose the VMWare m,anagement at the same time.

 

VMWare Fusion 3 - MacOS 10.6.2 - With a trial license of VMWare Fusion. Works like a charm. I may have to buy a copy when I get my MB back from Apple... (Broken ethernet port... sob...)

 

Parallels Desktop 4 - MacOS 10.6.2 - Didn't work. The translation from VMWare to Parallels seemed to work fine. But the boot halted part way through. I never debugged it as I switched to Fusion. I may go back & investigate properly at some stage, but Parallels won't install the updates for me anyway, so I may bin it.

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Works on VM server and Player for me too!

Figured it out.

 

Posted By Stan Chan on 02/18/2010 2:44 PM

 

 

I'm using VirtualBox with no issues. Works great. Using it as my iRules/iControls development environment.

 

 

 

What version are you using / what host?

 

 

I'm getting kernel panics when I boot under virtualbox sitting on a windows box (3.1.4 / Windows 2003 server, for what its worth)

 

 

I've got it running nicely under VMWare workstation 7

Should work fine when converted over to OVF format. Use VMware converter and/or ovftool. Xen ports work fine as well. Below is my ovf file for my Windows XP/VirtBox 3.1.4 image. I have it running on a Windows 7 64-bit box as well. YMMV...

 
  
  
    
      
    
    
     Virtual disk information 
      
    
    
     The list of logical networks 
      
       The custom network 
      
      
       The nat network 
      
    
    
     Virtual Box port enabled BIGIP LTM VE 
     BIGIP-10.1.0.3341.1078 
      
       Keep it simple 
      
      
       Virtual hardware that BIGIP likes 
        
         Virtual Hardware Family 
         0 
         BIGIP-10.1.0.3341.1078 
         vmx-07 
        
        
         hertz * 10^6 
         Number of Virtual CPUs 
         1 virtual CPU(s) 
         1 
         3 
         1 
        
        
         byte * 2^20 
         Memory Size 
         1024MB of memory 
         2 
         4 
         1024 
        
        
         0 
         IDE Controller 
         ideController0 
         3 
         5 
        
        
         0 
         disk1 
         ovf:/disk/vmdisk1 
         4 
         arent>3arent> 
         17 
        
        
         1 
         true 
         custom 
         PCNet32 ethernet adapter on "custom" 
         ethernet0 
         5 
         PCNet32 
         10 
        
        
         2 
         true 
         custom 
         E1000 ethernet adapter on "custom" 
         ethernet1 
         6 
         E1000 
         10 
        
        
         3 
         true 
         nat 
         E1000 ethernet adapter on "nat" 
         ethernet2 
         7 
         E1000 
         10 
        
      
    
  
 

 

Parallels Desktop 4 (Does Not Work!)

 

The reason parallels desktop doesn't work is the ethernet interface. VMWare provides pcnet32 (Management) and 82545 (Intel Gb) interface

 

emulation. While Parallels provides a Realtek (RTL-8029) interface. While not normally a problem with most OS's, the vLTM is of course customised,

 

and doesn't include the RTL network module (8390.ko IIRC).

 

 

If I get time some day, I may try creating or finding an existing module suitable for the kernel that F5 use. (Yes, buying VMWare Fusion would

 

probably be easier, but I've never gone the easy route yet, why start now...

 

 

I don't know what Parallels 5 provides...

 

 

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Successfully run it on VIrtualbox 3.1.6 (Archlinux x86 and x86-64 hosts).

 

Faced with kernel panic, but it was resolved with enabling PAE/NX support.

 

I am using VE on VMWare Fusion (OS X 10.6.3) without any issues.