On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want the console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary. And I have Server 1.x setups that have run for years with no attention or downtime. I agree that ESXi is better, but it wasn't free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the host along with several guests.
Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out not to work for VMware Server 2.0. But CentOS did come through with bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior after the same minor-rev update.
I went through this a while back both at work and at home. At work I converted the whole shebang from VMware Server 2.0 over to KVM. At home I went with ESXi. Both were fairly painless to do, though with ESXi you need a Windows box to manage it. Eventually, I'll probably convert the home machine to KVM. Maybe. OTOH, I like not having a boot drive (other than the SD card) on the box.
Hmm...
(thinking aloud) Is anyone doing KVM on a box from a USB stick or SD card? Saves a disk, and that's what VMware is doing with ESXi...
-I