rainer at ultra-secure.de wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dan Irwin <dan at jackies.com.au> wrote: > >> so many replies ... >> so my best option is to install VMware-server-1 ??? > > > - Doesn't work on RHEL5 (only RHEL4u3 or u4?) > - supported guest-OSs: similarly ancient I have some VMware-server 1.x versions running under Centos5.4 - and have Centos 5.4 running as a guest. I haven't had much trouble with it other than vmware-config.pl having to recompile the kernel module after every update. > If it's a server, I'd go for ESX4i right away (if the hardware is > supported - but if you have a decent NIC, it should not be a problem) Have to agree with that - ESXi is better, but then you have to run everything on the guests. Where I'm running Server the host also runs some apps. > For a workstation, go Virtual-Box, if you don't have much legacy stuff > sitting around. VMware Player might also be a reasonable choice if you are running things locally and always want the console attached to the session. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com