Johnny Hughes escribió: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:14 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> That is using an i386 host (on x86_64 machines) ... then installing >>> either i386 or x86_64 clients. >>> >> Regarding this, the host system is a dual-core Opteron... Should I use >> the x86_64 distro of Centos 4 or x86? >> >> Regards, >> >> Ugo >> >> > > What I normally do is this (with the free vmware server 1.0.1): > > I install a minimal i386 on the host, install vmware, and do nothing on > it except create the clients. > > The vmware server requires the i686 glibc and other files to run even on > x86_64, so I just make the host i386. > > There might be some performance degradation wrt i386 instead of x86_64, > but I have not really noticed a difference after trying a vmware x86_64 > host on one machine. > > You can install either x86_64 or i386 distros as a client OS on a > machine with an i386 vmware host installed (again, I am specifically > talking about the free server version). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > But with a minimal instalation of CentOS, (with vmware server 1.0.1) don't you need X11 if you install a windows guest operative system?? sorry about my english!!! Lazo