yum install vmware-server

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 03:41:36 UTC 2007


Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>
>> Vmware will run unmodified OS versions (as in windows too) in machines 
>> that don't have VT capable CPU's.  The virtual machine images are 
>> portable across Windows, Mac, and Linux hosts.  VMware can run the 
>> vast number of downloadable pre-built images here: 
>> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/.  Xen may have other 
>> advantages but there are still reasons to run VMware - and the price 
>> is right.
>>
> I just installed VMware Workstation 6 on a Fedora 7 host after spending 
> a couple weeks using xen, again on a Fedora 7 host. My big problem with 
> xen is that it lacks a nice graphical console that I can do real work in 
> with a bunch of guest OSes without straining my eyes to see the tiny, 
> non-resizeable windows.

You should be able to interact directly with the virtual machine's own 
remote GUI interfaces.  Even under VMware which includes decent console 
access I often run vnc directly to windows guests and ssh or freenx to 
Linux, ignoring the fact that they are virtual.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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