On 07/10/2009 08:34 PM, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: > Dear virt list > > I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 > 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine > with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the > GUI, e.g. they are not text only. > > Is it better to use VMware server or Xen? > "better" depends strictly on your needs and expertise. It's simpler to go the vmware server way, since all you have to do is to install the vmware-server rpm and register the existing VMs with it. By coincidence I've done exactly that 2 days ago. OTOH, xen is supported by the centos [and the wider linux] community , vmware is supported by others. Choose your poison :) > If using Xen, do I have to convert the images? > Yes, you do. Most probably you'll need to play at least with vmware-vdiskmanager