Compatibility with VMware and Microsoft virtualization products?

[alessandro.perilli]

Hi there,
I'd like to know if current StressLinux version is able to recognize all virtual hardware provided in virtual machines from VMware (ESX/GSX/Workstation) and Microsoft (Virtual PC/Server) products.

If so I would be happy to mention this project on my post "How to stress test virtual machines":
http://www.virtualization.info/2006/01/how-to-stress-test-virtual-machines.html


Thank you!


Alessandro Perilli, CISSP, MVP
IT Security and Virtualization Technology Analyst
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[stresslinux]

I often tested stresslinux in VMware workstion and also tested it on the free VMware Sserver. So it should work on the comercial server version, too. Some time ago i also tested it on Qemu.
Yesterday i found a page, which lists many distributions and OSes which may work on VirtualPC (http://vpc.visualwin.com/) Stresslinux is listed with different versions, but i never tried it myself, so i can not give any comments on this.

[andybehm]

I tried the current download 0.3.1 under Virtual PC on a HP Pavilion AMD64 laptop, and it runs the memtest fine, but when I boot the stress or noinitrd I get very frequent error messages (about 1 - 2 seconds apart) saying:
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriverReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0

That pretty makes it unusable since the display is constantly being trashed by these messages.

The other limitation seems that there is no Motherboard selection that would be appropriate for a Virtual PC environment.

You might want to consider adding direct support for Virtual PC. But I realize supporting everything is never practical, sigh.

[hibaaryan]

Thankyou, that was a very helpful reply!

As you might have guessed I'm new to Linux...

[bonds22]

The other limitation seems that there is no Motherboard selection that would be appropriate for a Virtual PC environment.