David Mackintosh wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:03:09AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ern jura wrote:
Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware
and
successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware?
VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the
vmware-config.pl setup script to set the options and install your (free)
license key. Then run vmware locally or from some other machine to
access the console where you can create and start the virtual machines.
Once created, you can treat the virtual machines like they were
separate physical boxes except that they contend for host resources (and
once they are up on the network I prefer to connect directly to them
with ssh, X, freenx, or vnc instead of using the VMware console. You'll
want plenty of RAM on the host machine and if you run several VM's they
will perform better if you can spread them over different disk drives.
With VMware you can copy your disk images over to a Windows or Mac host
and run them with no changes (Mac version isn't free, though).
This is pretty much what I do. I also keep stock "reference" images
for each OS I support and copy from the reference image every time I
need to deploy a new VM.
I like the idea of Xen, but the documentation is a little thin
especially when it comes to installing useful things like Windows
VMs; I don't have the time to solve the problem properly, and I hope
that in a year or two I can change this.
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So, what would you use if you wanted to / needed to host a Windows 2003
VM on a Linux / UNIX server? I don't / can't sacrifice a whole server
for a few ASP.NET aps.
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