On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:27:05PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 01/22/2010 09:20 AM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > Xen 3.4.2 may be an option, but I think I am going to pursue VMWare ESXi > > at this point. > > Be careful with glibc versions with VMWare on CentOS. They haven't > bothered to update for 5.4, and it's very crashy. You can get the > libc.so from 5.3 and put it in its library path to help. Search on > 'vmware glibc 5.4'. > > If you're willing to switch from Xen, you might also try out KVM. It's > much easier to deal with than the VMWare tomcat/browser/browser-plugin > monstrosity, especially if you use X. I've got a Win2K3 machine here in > an old version of KVM (less optimized) and launching Firefox only > briefly moved the CPU meter to 23%. IOW, it seems normal. > Also many people are running Windows 2003 VMs on Xen without problems. -- Pasi