[CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

Wed Feb 27 19:58:49 UTC 2008
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

David Mackintosh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:03:09AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>> Ern jura wrote:
>>     
>>> Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware 
>>> and
>>> successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware?
>>>       
>> VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the 
>> vmware-config.pl setup script to set the options and install your (free) 
>> license key.  Then run vmware locally or from some other machine to 
>> access the console where you can create and start the virtual machines. 
>>  Once created, you can treat the virtual machines like they were 
>> separate physical boxes except that they contend for host resources (and 
>> once they are up on the network I prefer to connect directly to them 
>> with ssh, X, freenx, or vnc instead of using the VMware console.  You'll 
>> want plenty of RAM on the host machine and if you run several VM's they 
>> will perform better if you can spread them over different disk drives.
>>
>> With VMware you can copy your disk images over to a Windows or Mac host 
>> and run them with no changes (Mac version isn't free, though).
>>     
>
> This is pretty much what I do.  I also keep stock "reference" images
> for each OS I support and copy from the reference image every time I
> need to deploy a new VM.
>
> I like the idea of Xen, but the documentation is a little thin
> especially when it comes to installing useful things like Windows
> VMs; I don't have the time to solve the problem properly, and I hope
> that in a year or two I can change this.
>
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So, what would you use if you wanted to / needed to host a Windows 2003 
VM on a Linux / UNIX server? I don't / can't sacrifice a whole server 
for a few ASP.NET aps.

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