Bill Campbell wrote:
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.
As I mentioned in the post above, I prefer to connect directly to the
guests once their network is up instead of using the vmware console -
and especially so for a guest OS that doesn't have a vmware-tools
package. I only use the console long enough to create and configure the
guest systems.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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