Use my work supplied workstation to set up SUSE Cloud under KVM and deploy several instances of servers.
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about 10 years ago by markkp | Reply
I was (eventually) successful in getting most things to work. The one thing I could not accomplish was to perform an actual install of SLES on the compute node. The install would start, but then sit there, seemingly forever, chewing up 100% of the virtual processors assigned to the guest. What was interesting about this was that I could boot the system into rescue mode from the same DVD image with no problems. I'm guessing that running this as a guest on a compute node that was already a KVM guest of my workstation either ran into performance problems or the hardware detection part of the installer had some sort of problem due to the nesting.
Aside from that, I found it very frustrating to try and figure out the networking, and how things should be set up, even by default. I had tried to start off by reading the deployment guide, but with that being over 200 pages long, I figured that I would never finish that before the end of the week.
Things wouldn't have been so bad if it would have been possible to re-deploy the admin node without having to re-install the whole operating system.
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