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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg