On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:43:02PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix XenServer also requires windows management client.
Quick correction (unless I'm misundertanding what you wrote here.)
Esx(i) doesn't require a Windows server, only a Windows machine to run the VIC or whatever they call the newer version of the client.
(Much of the time, the client can be dispensed with by either using vm-command and also some *limited* administration from a web brower.)
Note that there's a neverending thread on vmware forums for a Linux client, and I believe it was finally promised in the Sept 2009--but I could be really wrong with that date...
So, any decade now, I'm expecting it to be available.