[CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

[Les Mikesell]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>>>
>>> With VMware you can copy your disk images over to a Windows or Mac 
>>> host and run them with no changes (Mac version isn't free, though).
>>>     
>>
>> This is pretty much what I do.  I also keep stock "reference" images
>> for each OS I support and copy from the reference image every time I
>> need to deploy a new VM.
>>
>> I like the idea of Xen, but the documentation is a little thin
>> especially when it comes to installing useful things like Windows
>> VMs; I don't have the time to solve the problem properly, and I hope
>> that in a year or two I can change this.
>
> So, what would you use if you wanted to / needed to host a Windows 2003 
> VM on a Linux / UNIX server? I don't / can't sacrifice a whole server 
> for a few ASP.NET aps.

I haven't used xen so I can't compare them, but it is easy with vmware 
server and doesn't require any changes on the host other than installing 
the vmware package and configuring it.  People running xen tend to say 
that you shouldn't run anything else directly on the host, but this 
isn't a problem with vmware.

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   Les Mikesell
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