On 12/18/10 3:19 AM, Gerhard Schneider wrote:
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> The problem with VMWare Server is that it is a discontinued product for
> longer time and they don't provide us with a suitable replacement.
Do you need something that the 1.x series won't do? If something works and
serves your purpose it doesn't matter if it is discontinued or not.
> So our institute had to switch to VMWare workstation that can be run as
> a server, too. I'm running CentOS 5.5 as the Host OS and 5.5 and
> RHEL6beta as guests. We didn't try out RHEL6 (waiting for CentOS6 :-)
The other option is to run ESXi and move anything you were running on the host
to a guest. You'll get better performance that way but you need to run the
converter tool on some other machine to get the images copied in.
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Les Mikesell
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