[CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Feb 19 23:09:00 UTC 2014


On 02/19/2014 05:05 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>> On 2/19/2014 2:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> When I got a server with too much RAM for the free version of ESXi
>> that limit was rescinded in August.    ESXI 5.5 is now free for
>> unlimited memory.  about the only restriction is max 8 CPU cores per VM.
>>
> Figures... I think I built those in June or so.   Anyway, while the
> VMware console client is somewhat slicker I don't see any functional
> reason to change back - KVM runs them just the same.
>

I ran (in my previous job) four Windows 2008 server VMs, two Windows XP
VMs, and one Windows 7 VM on KVM with CentOS-5.x as the base OS.  I did
not have any major issues .. but I did not try to do things like USB
connections, etc.

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