[CentOS] VMware server 2 - Strange behaviour

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 15:24:50 UTC 2010


On 3/30/2010 10:13 AM, Georghy wrote:
> Les Mikesell a écrit :
>> Georghy wrote:
>>
>>> Kwan Lowe a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Georghy<fusco at wanagain.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The server hardware is :
>>>>> 32 GO RAM for memory, 2 xeon 4 cores for the processor
>>>>> Only vmware is running on this server (2 windows XP VM 256Mo each)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Unless you need the CentOS specifically as the host, you may be better
>>>> of running VMWare ESXi on the metal. There are performance and
>>>> usability benefits to ESXi.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It doesn't depend on me :(
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't matter who makes the decision, the results are the same...  Be sure
>> that whoever can make this decision knows that ESXi is a free download (but
>> requires a windows box to run the remote console when you need to make changes).
>>
>> But, if you continue running Centos as the host, is it 64-bit if the CPU is
>> 64-bit capable?
>>
>>
> I use PAE kernel wich support more than 32 BITs kernel

But the performance is worse than a native 64-bit kernel if the CPU is 
capable.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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