On 8/3/2010 8:10 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> >> VMware on the best machine you have and run the OS in question as a guest. In >> many cases you can find an image already installed that you can just download >> and run under VMware player. If you have to build your own, you'll probably >> want the latest version of vmware server 1.x that you can find (the 2.x versions >> have a problem running under Red Hat or Centos and nobody likes the web based >> console). > > Aha---have you tried the latest VMwareplayer? It seems to be their > replacement for the old VMwareserver. It now enables you to install an > O/S, so these days, I'm recommending it over VMware server--like you > (and most people), I greatly dislike the 2.x way of doing things. > > There is also the lighter, and at this point, probably less feature-ful > VirtualBox, of course. However, VMwareplayer, like the old VMware > server (that is, 1.x) allows you to install a wide variety of systems. I do have a fairly recent player on an XP laptop but hadn't explored the new features since I usually start by copying an image created on a faster machine under vmware server. But the main reason for having a recent version installed is that it handles USB drives nicely, giving you a choice of whether they attach to the host or guest and at the time I couldn't get that to work at all with VirtualBox even though the docs said it should. I find it very handy to be able to connect linux-formatted drives through a usb cable adapter that handles ide/laptop/sata drives and access the content without having to boot into linux - with the potential to do disaster recovery restores from a backuppc disk image. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos