On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > MHR wrote: >> I've been running VMWare Server 1.x for some time now, currently on >> 1.08, and I've been pretty satisfied with it. >> >> I was wondering if any of you fellow VMWare users are seeing any >> significant benefit to moving to the 2.0 release. > > I haven't tried doing anything new or different - the main thing is that > you don't have to rebuild the kernel module on every kernel update - and > I think the clock may be more stable for the VM guests. > >> I'm running CentOS 5.4 with Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP x86_64 on an >> AMD 7750 64x2 with 4GB of RAM.... > > If you are going to change anything, you might want to consider > installing ESXi natively on the hardware and run even your main Centos > host as a VM under it. I have some setups where most of the work is > done on the Centos host which also exports it's home directory via NFS > and one or more guests map the same home directory for some specialized > things. I haven't decided if ESXi would be a win for that setup or not. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > Hello MHR, I agree with Les on this. If your server is dedicated for VMware you should use ESXi. Take a look at its features: http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/features.html. ESXi is much better then VMware server 1.x or 2.x and it's free.