On 25/02/2011 1:13 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:04:08PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS 5.x glibc update? I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the reason for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't work.
You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else) preferred 1.x to 2.x. The later versions of player are more like 1.x, allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and work quite well with 64 bit CentOS.
I have begun to switch all my hosts without hardware virtualization, so can't use ESXi, to VirtualBox.
With the addition of an init.d script it works well as a headless virtual host. The VirtualBox commandline support is far superior to VMware Server. With the help of puppet I have automated the entire host install, configuration, guest vm creation and guest install and configuration.
VirtualBox was far easier to wrap puppet around than VMware Server was too.
Ben