[CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5

Wed Feb 27 20:17:44 UTC 2008
Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I've never tried this, but someone was telling me that it might be
possible to serve up ASP and ASP.net with Apache and mono.  I don't
know if this is true, but might be worth checking out.

-- 
-matt