Rob Kampen wrote:
> One of my clients use a software product that is "upgrading" and will
> shortly utilize micro$oft SQL server 2005.
> Currently the clients are XP on older machines with the database
> residing on a Samba / CentOS server and this works very well.
> Question: Does anyone run SQL server from XP in a virtualbox on CentOS?
> Any other configuration that works on a linux server?
> I do not want to have to buy another server grade machine just for
> this application.
SQL Server only runs on Windows SERVER OS's. on a desktop OS like XP,
youc an only run the 'lite' version aka MSDE or SQL Express depending on
which version, and this only allows a very few database connections, and
is mostly suited for standalone single user applications and software
development.
SQL Server has fairly expensive licensing per user too.
I would NOT virtualize a SQL database server, they have intensive disk
IO I/O requirements. also don't run a database on a network mounted
file system (samba, NAS, etc) for the same reason.
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