New to Harvester and I’m working on a “Frankenstein” HCI project to test Harvester out. What is normal start up time for a VM? Has anyone had the experience of VMs taking more than an hour to start? I’m working on spinning up a Centos 8 VM and it’s clocked at 15 hours still in the “starting” phase. I’m assuming this is a hardware issue as the machines I’m using are old desktops.
Yes, the shape of the case doesn’t matter as far as “actual servers”, but “machines with modern processors” is a problem.
Guessing a bit since only you only list one actual CPU model, but these look like 10-13 year old CPUs and I think at least 2 of 3 are lacking support for even basic the virtualization (VT-x) needed to run VMs.
When testing Harvester on a small old machine without enough disk space I found that spinning up VMs took an infinite amount of time (the VM never started).
So for a home lab I bought a NUC sized PC with a 8 core AMD CPU, threw in 64GB RAM and a 2TB SSD. Harvester is ticking along nicely and VMs start in seconds.
I might buy another just to see how well a cluster works.