Re: vmware

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

roland wrote:
> I thank you all for your help
> I asked the question on the site of centos and got this:
> --
> Anyway, vmware-server should always be the base and other machines 
> running as guests inside ... If you need two terminal servers ( a 
> linux based one with ltsp and the other one with M$ TSE) you need to 
> know that such machines are cpu (and memory even) intensives. so don't 
> forget to at least put a lot of memory inside the machine, or divide 
> the load on 2 or more physical machines ...
> Otherwise, vmware-server installs very quick on CentOS, you don't even 
> have to compile the network modules, since vmware support rhel and so 
> centos ....
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> So as I understand, you have to install first VMware -server and above 
> it,as guest, the OS's you need.
> Centos is a good base for Vmware applics and I hope Stable.

That is correct.  In addition to needing plenty of RAM, you should also 
note that any
time you get a new kernel in an update (that will happen even with 
Centos), you have
to re-run the vmware-configure.pl script before the server will start.  
On the plus side,
once the guest images are created, they are very portable.  You can move 
them to
machines with very different hardware or host OS's (even Windows or now an
intel Mac) without having to change anything.   If you can shut the 
guest machines
down for the duration of a copy you can do backups by copying the image 
files.
Otherwise don't forget to set up some kind of backup within the guests 
just like
you would with a real machine.

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 Les Mikesell
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