On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:31 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 31 August 2007, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov> wrote: > > > Message: 21 > > <snip> > > > As discussed recently on-list, VMware CPU requirements to support > > > virtualization are not nearly so rigorous as for Xen. You are > > > probably OK with VMware on most any relatively modern x86 or x86_64 > > > CPU. > > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-August/085796.htmlg. > > http://www.vmware.com/products/server/?urlcode=yahoo_ssp > > Phil: That's very cool! The largest free space I have on my HD is about > 5.3 GB. Can I create a new partition there and try VMware Server? TIA, No new partition is needed. VMware virtual disks are created as files within the hosts OS. That's not a lot of free space to play with, but enough to experiment with. Here's a sample of a directory of assorted VMware VMs: [prs at lynx vmware]$ du -sh * 23G C5_64 4.0G CentOS_3_9 4.7G CentOS-QA 6.7G fedora-7-i386 4.1G PCLinuxOS_2007 21G W2K_Pro 22G XP