On 25/02/2011 1:13 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:04:08PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Can someone remind me why VMware server 2.x broke with a RHEL/CentOS 5.x glibc >> update? I switched back to 1.x which I like better anyway, but if the reason >> for putting up with oldness is to keep that from happening, it didn't work. > You may want to try VMware-player if you, (like almost everyone else) > preferred 1.x to 2.x. The later versions of player are more like 1.x, > allowing you to install an operating system from ISO or whatever, and > work quite well with 64 bit CentOS. I have begun to switch all my hosts without hardware virtualization, so can't use ESXi, to VirtualBox. With the addition of an init.d script it works well as a headless virtual host. The VirtualBox commandline support is far superior to VMware Server. With the help of puppet I have automated the entire host install, configuration, guest vm creation and guest install and configuration. VirtualBox was far easier to wrap puppet around than VMware Server was too. Ben