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Thanks for the info Greg.<br>
<br>
Below is the list of my entitlements. I don't see x86 directly listed
- is it included in the 64-bit entitlement by default ?<br>
<br>
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<table class="list" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
width="100%">
<thead><tr>
<th align="left">Channel Entitlement</th>
<th align="left">Systems Subscribed</th>
<th align="left">Available Subscriptions</th>
</tr>
</thead><!-- End Header Row --><tbody>
<tr class="list-row-odd">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Developer Suite </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-even">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Application
Server 1.0 (AS for i386) </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-odd">
<td class="first-column" align="left">RHEL AS (v. 4 for x86)
SDK </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-even">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES Beta </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-odd">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES Extras </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-even">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES Extras Beta </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-odd">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES </td>
<td align="left"><a
href="/network/systems/system_list/in_channel_family.pxt?cfam_id=3154">1</a>
</td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">0 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-even">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Developer Suite
Beta </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
<tr class="list-row-odd">
<td class="first-column" align="left">Red Hat Application
Server Beta </td>
<td align="left">0 </td>
<td class="last-column" align="left">1 </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</blockquote>
Adrian<br>
<br>
Greg Forte wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid43A556E8.2090803@leopard.us.udel.edu" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Adrian Marsh wrote:
</pre>
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<pre wrap="">We've bought RedHat Linux 3 ES, EM64T, FI, but when I try to install
some of our development packages (eg picotool) rpm complains about
missing libraries. OS was all pre-installed by Dell.
Everything I've read-up on, on rhn, says that the 64-bit version should
be backward compatible to 32-bit. But I can't see why it's complaining.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
32-bit and 64-bit binaries can both run "natively", side-by-side on the
AMD64/EM64T architectures, but libraries have to be compiled one or the
other, and RedHat x86_64 doesn't include 32-bit versions of most (nearly
all) libraries. This isn't to say you can't have them, just that RedHat
does't install them automatically. You can download the 32-bit packages
from rhn by going to your channels list, selecting the x86 channel for
the appropriate version, and searching for the individual package, but I
haven't found any way to get up2date to automatically grab them for me -
I think I asked about this on this list a couple of months ago and
received no response.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Our developers have been talking to Pico, who recommend we only run a
32-bit environment - but this doesn't sound right to me.. If I went
down the route of a re-install, where would I get hold of the 32-bit of
ES ? (would it be built into the original CDs shipped?)
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
See above - you can also download the x86 ISOs, if that's more
convenient for you.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Another idea we've had was to purchase VMWare, and run multiple 32-bit
"development servers" off of the 64-bit host. But If I go that route,
then the following additional questions arise:
1) - Would our current license cover us for multiple copies of ES?
(32bit + host 64?)
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
depends how the license is written, but in general, probably not - the
license permits you to run a particular number of installations of ES
(I'm guessing 1, in your case). AFAIK RedHat licenses treat virtual
machines no differently from real ones, so if your license allows you
one copy, then it allows you one virtual copy. The license DOES allow
you to use any of the available architectures (and, unless I'm mistaken,
to mix and match packages from the different architectures, i.e. as
described above), but you'd still need X+1 licenses (or "entitlements",
as RH likes to call them) to run X virtual machines on 1 physical machine.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">2) - What sort of spec machine is practical? I imagine I'd need to move
to 2CPU, and more than 256Mb of memory.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
That all depends on how many virtual machines you want to run, and what
kind of load you'd be placing on them. You can probably run several
virtual machines comfortably on a single CPU, but not with 256 MB of
ram, no. You'd want as much physical memory as the sum of the amount of
memory you want to assign to each virtual machine, plus some for the
host OS. Of course, the more muscle, the better, but the whole idea of
VMWare is that the average machine's CPU is underutilized, so adding CPU
isn't necessarily going to be productive.
-g
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