[CentOS] virtualizing Windows in Cetnos

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Tue Feb 27 23:05:17 UTC 2007


no it's a p-4 2.4 ghz machine with 1 gig of ram and dual 160 gig hdd's..<G>

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 2/27/07, William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> 
> wrote:
>> Here is what i am looking to do.  i have a server SBS 2k3 machine.  I
>> want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux
>> installation.  I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs
>> virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of
>> windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be
>> desired).  What are my options both free and commercial?  I know i will
>> have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)
> 
> Assuming you don't have the spiffy new intel processors with the
> virtualisation junk built in, vmware-server should do a reasonable job
> of this. It's got some very nice cli managment, and you can tune the
> linux box to be a bit more responsive with respect to the vmware
> handling.
> 
> 
> 

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