[CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5
Matt Shields
mattboston at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 20:17:44 UTC 2008
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
>
> David Mackintosh wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:03:09AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >
> >> Ern jura wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware
> >>> and
> >>> successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware?
> >>>
> >> VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the
> >> vmware-config.pl setup script to set the options and install your (free)
> >> license key. Then run vmware locally or from some other machine to
> >> access the console where you can create and start the virtual machines.
> >> Once created, you can treat the virtual machines like they were
> >> separate physical boxes except that they contend for host resources (and
> >> once they are up on the network I prefer to connect directly to them
> >> with ssh, X, freenx, or vnc instead of using the VMware console. You'll
> >> want plenty of RAM on the host machine and if you run several VM's they
> >> will perform better if you can spread them over different disk drives.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
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> 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've never tried this, but someone was telling me that it might be
possible to serve up ASP and ASP.net with Apache and mono. I don't
know if this is true, but might be worth checking out.
--
-matt
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