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. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > 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