I forgot to mention.... if you are interested you can safely run vmware on an openvz kernel. Openvz is more like solaris zones/containers. Cheers. ----- Original Message ----- From: redhat at mckerrs.net To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:31:32 AM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server Guys, you can't do this. If you try and run vmware on a Xen kernel you will panic/crash the box as soon as you try to startup a vmware vm. Both Xen and vmware run in ring 0. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:56:10 AM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - Xen and Vmware Server On 10/15/07, Bruno Sousa <bruno.sousa at first.pt> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Is it possible to run in at the same time Xen and Vmware, under the same > physical host? > > Not without patching a lot of stuff. When someone asked this a while back.. there was a lot of conflicting code and when they got past that it just crashed. To put it another way, both are ball games that look alike: Cricket, American Baseball.. beyond throwing a ball, hitting, catching, and running they are not the same. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner , and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071016/48685174/attachment-0005.html>