Preparing To Install A Netware Vm Guest Server; Planning For Vm Host Servers - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

Direct access to physical devices.
The save, restore, and migrate commands.
Some Novell Remote Manager debugging features.
11.3 Preparing to Install a NetWare VM Guest
Server
Section 11.3.1, "Planning for VM Host Servers," on page 193
Section 11.3.2, "Planning for NetWare VM Guest Servers," on page 194
Section 11.3.3, "You Must Use Timesync for Time Synchronization," on page 195
Section 11.3.4, "Disabling the Alt+Esc Shortcut on the Host," on page 195

11.3.1 Planning for VM Host Servers

"Meeting Server Hardware and Software Requirements" on page 193
"Deciding Whether to Run OES Services on VM Host Servers" on page 193
Meeting Server Hardware and Software Requirements
To accommodate NetWare VM guest servers, your VM host servers must:
Meet the criteria specified in
documentation/sles10/book_virtualization_xen/data/cha_xen_virtualization_vhost_setup.html)
in the Virtualization with Xen (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/
book_virtualization_xen/data/book_virtualization_xen.html)
Have enough memory (RAM) on the physical machine for:
The SLES 10 operating system (512 MB)
Any of the supported OES services that you install on the VM host (512 MB)
Each NetWare virtual machine that you plan to run concurrently (1 GB to 8 GB)
For example, if you are installing one NetWare VM guest server on a SLES 10 VM host server,
you need a minimum of 1.5 GB of memory: 512 MB for the VM host server and 1 GB for the
NetWare VM guest server. For optimal performance, you should allocate as much memory as
possible for each NetWare VM guest, up to 8 GB each.
Have enough disk space on the host server for creating and running the VM guest servers.
The default disk space for a NetWare VM guest server is 10 GB. You might need more or less
space, depending on what you will use the guest server for and what its storage configuration
will be. You might want to locate your virtual machines on a separate partition or even on a
separate storage device. For example, you might create a
installed in the server. For additional information, see
Deciding Whether to Run OES Services on VM Host Servers
You should also decide whether to install OES 2 SP2 and one or more of its supported services on
your VM host servers.
"Setting Up a Virtual Machine Host" (http://www.novell.com/
Installing and Managing NetWare on a Xen-based VM 193
guide.
partition on a separate drive
/vm
"Storage Planning" on page 194.