On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> 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 that limit was rescinded in August.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. I think the disk image formats are even fairly portable now. I've also run vmdk images under Virtualbox on a Mac host and VMware Player (no surprise there) on a Windows host and even an old parallels hdd image on Virtualbox. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com