On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:43:02PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix > XenServer also requires windows management client. Quick correction (unless I'm misundertanding what you wrote here.) Esx(i) doesn't require a Windows server, only a Windows machine to run the VIC or whatever they call the newer version of the client. (Much of the time, the client can be dispensed with by either using vm-command and also some *limited* administration from a web brower.) Note that there's a neverending thread on vmware forums for a Linux client, and I believe it was finally promised in the Sept 2009--but I could be really wrong with that date... So, any decade now, I'm expecting it to be available. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6