[CentOS] virtualizing Windows in Cetnos

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 22:50:18 UTC 2007


On 2/27/07, William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> Here is what i am looking to do.  i have a server SBS 2k3 machine.  I
> want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux
> installation.  I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs
> virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of
> windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be
> desired).  What are my options both free and commercial?  I know i will
> have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)

Assuming you don't have the spiffy new intel processors with the
virtualisation junk built in, vmware-server should do a reasonable job
of this. It's got some very nice cli managment, and you can tune the
linux box to be a bit more responsive with respect to the vmware
handling.



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