[ubuntu-za] Win 2008 Server Virtual Guest

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi Charl,

look at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-gui-in-ubuntu-server.html

In particular, look at the part "    sudo aptitude  install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop"

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Carl Wentzel [charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za]
Sent: 09 November 2009 00:22
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Win 2008 Server Virtual Guest

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:11 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I've been trying to get Win Server 2008 to install as a Virtual Guest on
> KVM, with no luck.
>

I finally did get it right!  I'm running Jaunty on my laptop with the
equivalent virt-manager, whereas the server is running Karmic.  The
system worked once I installed ubuntu-desktop on the server (which
really was not my preference), and virt-manager on top of that.

There was most likely some incompatibility between Jaunty and Karmic.

Running virt-manager from the base server did the trick.  The added
benefit is that I could very efficiently access all the virtual machines
directly from the server, which was faster that accessing it over the
network.

I removed all the unnecessary packages I could "easily" find from the
base server, e.g. games.  But I'm wondering whether there is a more
"bandwidth efficient" way to run a very basic Gnome on the base server
without downloading unnecessary packages as with the ubuntu-desktop
meta-package (or rather "mega"-package).

Windows 2008 server ran smoothly out of the box, without any complaints.
I've seen many people mention "virtio" which should improve performance.
Granted Goldmine is a database applications (using MS SQL) improving
disk performance is crutial.  However, Windows did not seem to "like"
these drivers.  Is there something I need to adjust on the virtual
machines definition to install these drivers?

I also set up the bridge interface br0 -> eth0 as explained by the
Ubuntu server documentation.  However, although the virtual guest
servers can access the outside world, they are not visible to other
machines on the network.  Is there something else I need to configure?

My appologies if I overlooked some "easy to find" or "obvious"
instructions, but after spending a whole day reading, installing,
figuring out, etc, I'm no longer at my best.

Regards
Charl


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