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filr support for KVM

by: bas m. | over a year ago | Other
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I would like to see KVM support for Filr.

I know it's possible to convert vmdk

Kvm seems to work better than Xen for Windows VM'S
OES & SLES11 VM'S works ok. No worse or better Hanson Xen host...

by: bas m. | over a year ago | Other

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  • Seems KVM is used more and more so this would be very nice. Open Stack implementations are most common on KVM. We're looking to switch from XEN to KVM but Filr and iPrint is a stopper at the moment...

    by: Magnus H. | over a year ago

  • We have the same issues as Magnus above and also running private cloud on openstack where we wish to offer filr and more as PaaS.

    by: Henrik H. | over a year ago

  • We really need KVM hypervisior support for the fir Filr and other appliances. We're using openXEN on SLES but are most likely going to migrate to KVM in 2017. We see both larger solutions using OpenStack and SMBs using HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) like Nutanix and Scale Computing using KVM.

    It should not add so much work because the support is already there in the kernel. This is going to be a very important decision for us going forward with Filr, iPrint and ZenWorks.

    by: Magnus H. | over a year ago

  • Noted Magnus. Also note that the idea is also added in Filr ideas portal as at https://ideas.microfocus.com/MFI/novell-filr/Idea/Detail/785

    by: Devadas K. | over a year ago

  • Community is moving away from XEN to KVM as a standard hypervisor on Linux. Due to that there is very high pressure now to support Filr and also all other Appliances (iPrint, ZCM) on KVM.

    Is there a documented workaround how to get the current Filr adjusted to run within KVM?

    I assume in "full virtualized" mode this might work - maybe a conversion of the VMDK file to RAW or QCOW2 might be required?

    In addition it might be required to adjust the disk and network I/O to virtio..

    by: Martin W. | over a year ago

  • Have tested Filr2 and Filr3 with KVM without any problems. I imported the ova in VirtualBox, converted disks to raw and copied to KVM host. Start appliance and install. After install completes remove drivers for VMware. At the moment we're testing Filr3, iPrint2 och Service Desk in Nutanix/AHV (KVM) and have not seen any issues so far. All appliances are built on SLES that fully supports KVM. The thing is that we need support from MicroFocus to be able to continue to use these products.

    by: Magnus H. | over a year ago