I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM....
Thanks.
mhr
MHR wrote:
I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM....
For me at least 2.x supports the newer kernels, I haven't tried vmware server on centos but the drivers wouldn't build for me on Debian 5.0(even tried some 3rd party patches to no avail). If it weren't for that then I'd probably still be on 1.x.
The one thing I do miss about 1.x is the remote console, the new remote console in 2.x is web-based, which is kind of annoying.
nate
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, nate wrote:
MHR wrote:
I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM....
Much more flexibilty in setting up networking, etc. Agree that the lack of a client is irritating..
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MHR wrote:
I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release.
I haven't tried doing anything new or different - the main thing is that you don't have to rebuild the kernel module on every kernel update - and I think the clock may be more stable for the VM guests.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM....
If you are going to change anything, you might want to consider installing ESXi natively on the hardware and run even your main Centos host as a VM under it. I have some setups where most of the work is done on the Centos host which also exports it's home directory via NFS and one or more guests map the same home directory for some specialized things. I haven't decided if ESXi would be a win for that setup or not.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
MHR wrote:
I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it.
I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release.
I haven't tried doing anything new or different - the main thing is that you don't have to rebuild the kernel module on every kernel update - and I think the clock may be more stable for the VM guests.
I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM....
If you are going to change anything, you might want to consider installing ESXi natively on the hardware and run even your main Centos host as a VM under it. I have some setups where most of the work is done on the Centos host which also exports it's home directory via NFS and one or more guests map the same home directory for some specialized things. I haven't decided if ESXi would be a win for that setup or not.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
Hello MHR, I agree with Les on this. If your server is dedicated for VMware you should use ESXi. Take a look at its features: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html. ESXi is much better then VMware server 1.x or 2.x and it's free.
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