Hello!  I'm thinking about running Cisco's Virl on my server but it does not support KVM at this time. 

Can I have VMWare installed on my Unraid server at the same time as KVM? My thought is that they may fight over hardware resources.  If I do run VMWare should I disable KVM entirely?

 

People still do run ESXI as a hypervisor and Unraid on top.  There's even a subforum dedicated to running Unraid as a guest.  It is far less active since the advent of KVM for obvious reasons but it has a wealth of information.

Thanks for the response.  I'm not virtualizing my server, it's running on bare metal.  I am wondering if I can run VMWare Workstation on Unraid without running into issues with KVM.

Thanks for the response.  I'm not virtualizing my server, it's running on bare metal.  I am wondering if I can run VMWare Workstation on Unraid without running into issues with KVM.

How, exactly, were you planning on installing VMWare on unRaid?

I know that people run Virtualbox on Unraid which is a similar type of hypervisor but I've not seen anyone running VMWare.  I'm not familiar with the install process for this, but Unraid is based upon slackware.  Whether you can run VMWare on slackware or not I couldn't say.

I don't believe you can run esxi inside unraid. It had to be the other way

I don't believe you can run esxi inside unraid. It had to be the other way

Today, no, you can't, but we are seriously considering supporting it in the future. I have it working in the lab.

Oh sweet baby geezus make it happen yes!

How, exactly, were you planning on installing VMWare on unRaid?

 

I was thinking about installing this: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/playerpro-evaluation.html

Cisco says they support it http://virl-dev-innovate.cisco.com/workstation.php

 

There's a Linux version.  Is VMWare Workstation not a hypervisor?

 

Not a full blown one.  No pass through.  But it is useful for testing and playing.  VMWARE esxi is what people run in production.

Running ESXi under KVM is an interesting concept ... although candidly I'd think it'd be preferable to run UnRAID under ESXi instead of the other way around for one simple reason:  You can shut down UnRAID without any impact on other running virtual machines (at least not on those hosted by ESXi); which is not (at least not now) possible when UnRAID is hosting your VM's.

 

Running ESXi under KVM is an interesting concept ... although candidly I'd think it'd be preferable to run UnRAID under ESXi instead of the other way around for one simple reason:  You can shut down UnRAID without any impact on other running virtual machines (at least not on those hosted by ESXi); which is not (at least not now) possible when UnRAID is hosting your VM's.

 

Very true.  It really depends on the kind of VMs you are planning to run and how big of a deal it is for you to shut them down.  I think for most home/consumer use-cases, it's not a big deal, but probably not for a data center use case.  Then again, can you upgrade ESXi without having to shut down the host?  That's really the only reason you'd shut down unRAID, right?