[CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jan 8 05:18:19 UTC 2008
Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 20:02
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
>>
>> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
>>>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 19:25
>>>> To: CentOS mailing list
>>>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Live CD Planning systems
>>>>
>>>> But the big looser with my dreams is running XP inside of
>>>> XEN. You have
>>>> to set up an LVM partition then install XP into it withing
>>>>
>> XEN. And I
>>
>>>> cannot touch that drive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Have you tried Vmware?
>>>
>>>
>>> We have used it many a time to mount a physical drive and boot it.
>>>
>>>
>> oh, I thought VMware had the same limitations. So the OS on
>> the physical
>> drive was installed directly with that OS, no touching it by VMware?
>>
>> It is strictly hands off the drive in this case.
>>
>
> The existing computers were remove from their cpu/cases and installed as
> extra drives in our VMWare hosts.
>
> We then created new vm instances and pointed them to a the /dev/hdx
> (physical drive) for the presentation of the guest OS.
>
> Now for the caveats. Some Os'es and configs wont like the hardware change.
> Are you allowed to clone the drive? If so the try with the clone first. If
> not where are the ramifications of hosing the XP install (accidentally).
> VMWare reccommends running a prep tool first (we don't use it).
>
Fortunately I am going the other direction. The XP drive stays in the
system.
I will have a Centos install on a USB attached drive. To this I will add
VMware to boot up and run the OS on that drive.
Well, thank you for this input. I will put it on sort of a back burner.
I received company email saying that we will be getting Dell 630s later
this month to fit in with the greater company standard. I am not happy
to get an even larger unit.
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