[CentOS] Virtualisation

Thu Mar 1 20:18:10 UTC 2007
Jay Lee <jlee at pbu.edu>

David Mackintosh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:11:26PM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
>  
>   
>> I'm wondering what people recommend for virtual servers these days?
>> CentOS 4 with a vserver kernel?  Wait for CentOS 5 and use Xen?  VMware?
>> (Vmware is the heavy solution, but it does mean I could host a windows
>> session if I wanted to).  Or Solaris 10 and zones?
>>     
>
> Personally I'm using VMWare-workstation, but it isn't an ideal solution:
> - it costs
> - it is hard to make VMs start at system boot
> - it is a heavyweight solution
>
>   
ESX is a "lighter-weight" solution (in that it runs on the bare-metal 
rather than requiring a host OS that sucks up resources.  It of course 
is the most expensive solution but IMHO, it's worth every penny.  ESX is 
the only virtualization option I would care to put production workloads on.
> The reason I am using -Workstatin as opposed to the free -Server
> offering is because -Server does not provide some virtual hardware
> that is useful in a workstation environment.  
>
> I find it odd what drives your requirements in the end.  In my
> particular case, I am connecting to a Windows VM through a Sun Ray
> session, and found my Windows VMs were less usefull without the sound
> devices because Windows Movie Maker would not start on a system which
> lacked a sound card.  (And I wanted Windows Movie Maker to convert
> video streams from the high-bitrate that comes from the camera down
> to something a little more portable, not to actually view anything.)
>   

VMWare Server can do sound, it's just that the default virtual machine 
doesn't include a sound card.  Just go to the settings for the VM, add 
new hardware and add a sound card.  Still Workstation does a number of 
handy things that Server doesn't, multiple snapshots for instance...

Jay
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