On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 08:55 -0400, William Warren wrote:
I want to use Centos5 as my host os and virtualize a windows server on it. My question is..do i have to be at the machine to setup the windows server inside the virtual server since windows 2k3 is gui based or can i do this remotely somehow?
I assume you're talking about Xen virtualization ? (someone already pointed you to vmware server as well). It's not necessary to be on the console to install a windows DomU in Xen ... you can use ssh with X forwarding to launch virt-manager and grab the VirtualFrameBuffer console (either from virt-manager or directly with vnc). Don't forget to consult the wiki page about windows on Xen : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingHVMDomU BTW : don't forget also that, at this time, windows performances on xen are *really* bad in comparison with the same windows on vmware server (no windows drivers available for xen guests , but vmware service tools, aka drivers, available for Vmware guests.) And you need also a processor with VT (Intel) or V-Pacifica (AMD) to support full-virtualization on Xen ....