[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Rusty Yonkers]

I have used the VMWare server that is free.  It is still listed as in
beta but seems to work really well.  That is what I use to build
machines on.  Some of my machines I then just run the player.  Server
has processes that run constantly in the background that do take some
resources away from the box.  If you are going to put up a server
then of course you will want to run it on server.  

Yes you will want to load the VMWare tools.  It makes a world of
difference.  

I would recommend using SuSE for the host operating system or if you
are going to purchase it RedHat would also work.  I think it will
make the installation a little easier and more reliable.  Once you
build the host then you can run ANY guest OS on it.  I have done DOS,
Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and several distros of Linux.  I even ran
Linux on Windows on Linux once just for the fun of it.  

--- Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:01 -0800, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> > Where I work we use VMWare heavily.  We are using the ESX product
> > with multiple virtual servers on a single host.  It is working
> really
> > well for us.  I have also used the VMWare workstation before and
> it
> > is really good.  You can now get VMWare server (the baby product
> to
> > ESX server) for free. 
> 
> Has anyone used the free server product?
> 
> > Microsoft shipping Virtual Server with Vista.  
> 
> </shudders>
> 
> > We are running on top of RedHat enterprise for the ESX server.  I
> > have run machines on top of  SuSE 10 with the player that I
> > originally built with the server version on a Windows server. 
> 
> Isn't it *AWESOME* to just move entire servers around with scp? :)
> 
> > For developers you would want to get the workstation version (has
> > some features that will be good for them) but for other people
> that
> > will be testing things in general the VMWare server will probably
> > work fine.  The player works really good too.
> 
> The only drawback we've seen is that player does not come with
> VMware
> tools,  so you need to send you VM to someone with workstation in
> order
> to have vmtools installed - using Windows in a VM without vmtools
> is
> horrible (mouse is jerky, display is slow, etc...)
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Russell C. Yonkers Jr. 
CNE, MCSA, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+, Security+ certified
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Currently using SuSE 10, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and WinXP 
And yes I run a network at home with Linux and Windows servers

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