On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:47 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Player isn't good for most of my usage because most of the time I don't want the > console display at all - I just connect to the guests remotely with > freenx/ssh/vnc when necessary. And I have Server 1.x setups that have run for > years with no attention or downtime. I agree that ESXi is better, but it wasn't > free when I built the VMs and I'm running some native Centos stuff on the host > along with several guests. > > Anyway, my point was that the fabled library ABI stability of RHEL turned out > not to work for VMware Server 2.0. But CentOS did come through with > bug-for-bug compatibility as promised, causing the same crashing behavior after > the same minor-rev update. I went through this a while back both at work and at home. At work I converted the whole shebang from VMware Server 2.0 over to KVM. At home I went with ESXi. Both were fairly painless to do, though with ESXi you need a Windows box to manage it. Eventually, I'll probably convert the home machine to KVM. Maybe. OTOH, I like not having a boot drive (other than the SD card) on the box. Hmm... (thinking aloud) Is anyone doing KVM on a box from a USB stick or SD card? Saves a disk, and that's what VMware is doing with ESXi... -I