On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 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.
I just started playing with VMware-server-1.0.5-80187 on a 64-bit
CentOS 5 system system, and am having some issues with the hotkey
switching. Running the vmware-server-console via an ssh
connection from a PPC Mac Mini, it doesn't recognize the ctrl-alt
sequences, which isn't totally surprising as I'm using a PS/2
Microsoft Natural keyboard on a KVM switch with a USB->PS/2
adapter. When I try running it directly on the CentOS system's
console through the same KVM switch, it doesn't respond either.
I have installed SCO Openserver 5.0.6a on a virtual image, and
that seems to be working OK (my primary object now with VMware is
to have a fall-back when customer's OSR5 system's hardware goes
south). I have had at least one situation where it didn't
recognize the CTRL-RightButton sequence in an xterm running on
the OSR5 image.
This is a CentOS 5 system with ``yum update'' reporting that
everything is current.
The system has 2GB RAM.
uname -a returns:
Linux atramax2.mi.celestial.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:37:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1999.939
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 4002.81
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 1999.939
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 3999.96
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
Bill
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principles or your mistress".
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