That looks purty. I will throw it on one of my boxes tonight, I have been meaning to get rid of ESXi anyways for awhile. Sorry for Hijacking this thread (and top posting ;-) ). Have a great evening! ~A On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:36:10 -0600, Bret Baptist <bbaptist at iexposure.com> wrote: > Seriously, look at Proxmox before you go with Xen. > > http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page > > > > Bret. > > On Monday 02 November 2009 01:07:27 pm Andrew Kuriger wrote: >> I am a bit leery of VMware at this point even though that is what I have >> been using mainly. My huge problem being no vSphere client for Windows 7 >> or >> Linux. I am probably going to look more into the Xen side of things >> since I >> have heard good things. >> >> ~Andrew >> >> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:23:21 -0500, "Randy Clarksean" >> >> <rclarksean at arvig.net> wrote: >> > I echo the comments below on ESXi. I am only running the 32bit version >> >> at >> >> > present, but I run an old Windows 2000 OS and Fedora Core 5 on it >> >> without >> >> > any problems … all very seamless. I would assume the same is true >> > with >> >> the >> >> > 64 bit versions. >> > >> > >> > >> > Performance is very good. At present, I am running it on a dual >> >> processor >> >> > Xeon box from Dell. Looking at a quad Xeon processor 64 bit system as >> >> my >> >> > next upgrade. >> > >> > >> > >> > Randy >> > >> > >> > >> > _____ >> > >> > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Elvedin Trnjanin >> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:33 AM >> > To: Kathryn Hogg >> > Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] VMWare 2.0.2 on Linux >> > >> > >> > >> > Kathryn Hogg wrote: >> > >> > Wayne Johnson wrote: >> > >> > >> > Anyone tried VMWare Server 2.0.2? I’ve tried it on my new AMD64 >> > quad >> > core and had lots of problems. Just wondering if it's me or the >> >> software. >> >> > I unfortunately have to do the bulk of my development work in Windows >> >> even >> >> > though its all J2EE. So I keep linux as my host OS and run XP in >> >> virtual >> >> > machine for the coding/testing. >> > >> > I used to use vmware server but it seemed like their drivers would >> >> always >> >> > fail to compile and I would get some strange kernel panics. I've >> >> switched >> >> > over to virtualbox. It runs smoother, I've yet to have a problem with >> > a >> > kernel upgrade, and the seamless mode is great. >> > >> > >> > >> > Have you considered running ESXi and all of the operating systems you >> >> need >> >> > on top of it? Compatibility (apart from hardware) should not be an >> > issue >> >> in >> >> > such a setup and performance would be better if you require multiple >> > virtual machines running at the same time. If you intermittently need a >> >> few >> >> > virtual machines, then Virtualbox is certainly a great solution as I >> > use >> >> it >> >> > too. >> -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments