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David Mackintosh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm wondering what people recommend for virtual servers these days?
CentOS 4 with a vserver kernel? Wait for CentOS 5 and use Xen? VMware?
(Vmware is the heavy solution, but it does mean I could host a windows
session if I wanted to). Or Solaris 10 and zones?
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Personally I'm using VMWare-workstation, but it isn't an ideal solution:
- it costs
- it is hard to make VMs start at system boot
- it is a heavyweight solution
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ESX is a "lighter-weight" solution (in that it runs on the bare-metal
rather than requiring a host OS that sucks up resources. It of course
is the most expensive solution but IMHO, it's worth every penny. ESX
is the only virtualization option I would care to put production
workloads on.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The reason I am using -Workstatin as opposed to the free -Server
offering is because -Server does not provide some virtual hardware
that is useful in a workstation environment.
I find it odd what drives your requirements in the end. In my
particular case, I am connecting to a Windows VM through a Sun Ray
session, and found my Windows VMs were less usefull without the sound
devices because Windows Movie Maker would not start on a system which
lacked a sound card. (And I wanted Windows Movie Maker to convert
video streams from the high-bitrate that comes from the camera down
to something a little more portable, not to actually view anything.)
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VMWare Server can do sound, it's just that the default virtual machine
doesn't include a sound card. Just go to the settings for the VM, add
new hardware and add a sound card. Still Workstation does a number of
handy things that Server doesn't, multiple snapshots for instance...<br>
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Jay<br>
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