vmware

[mark]

Josh Miller wrote:
> mark wrote:
>> Well, I'm finally setting up a vm, to test out CentOS 5.3. First time I
>> fired up vmserver, and it *looks* like it doesn't want to allow me to give
>>  it more than 3.5G.
> 
> Which version of VMware Server are you using?  If you are using a recent 
> version you should be able to provision 8GB if your host supports this.

That's the answer, then - I d/l my copy back in Dec.
> 
> For VMware server 2+ "The maximum amount of memory that can be allocated per
> virtual machine has been raised from 3.6GB to 8GB. The amount of memory used
> by all virtual machines combined is limited only by the amount of the host 
> computer's RAM. "
> 
>> Second, I'd already created three virtual partitions using LVM, which I
>> want to use for the vm's datastore. In create datastore, I don't see any
>> way to point to anything *other* than a mounted filesystem - is there any
>> way around that?
> 
> "A datastore is a storage location for VMware Server virtual machine files.
> The storage location can be the local file system, a CIFS store (Windows
> only), or an NFS‐mounted file system (Linux only)."
> 
> re: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/server_pubs.html
> 
> HTH,

It did, and I've added them. Thanks!

What I don't see being able to do, that I can do in the regular VI client is
edit settings, so I guess I delete the vm, then recreate it using the
datastores I just added. *sigh*

Thanks again!

	mark
	mark "now, on to the ne