[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Rusty Yonkers]

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.  EMC now owns VMWare and is doing this to
increase market share ahead of Microsoft shipping Virtual Server with
Vista.  

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. 

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.

I have not tried it on Debian so cannot vouch for it.  I do know that
I have put every version of Windows from 95 on up and several distros
of Linux as virtual machines.  I even had one time that I had a
RedHat 7 host then put on a Windows 2000 guest.  I loaded VMWare
workstation in the Windows guest and then loaded a RedHat guest
inside of that host/guest.  Did it just so I could say that I did...
;-)


--- Mark Bystry <mabystry at verizon.net> wrote:

> perhaps if you are not using vmplayer all of the time you could
> disable the vmware services until 
> you needed them. just takes an extra minute or two to manually
> start the services when needed.
> 
> Mark Bystry
> SuSE 10.0
> KDE 3.4.2
> 
> 
> John Pesce wrote the following on 3/29/2006 12:13 PM:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:14 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >>> I am looking into utilizing VMWare for our developers whom run
> linux as a host operating system to be able to utilize VMWare 5.5
> >>> to have windows installed. We currently have two developers
> utilizing the 30 day workstation trial. One user is running Debian
> >>> Unstable/Testing hybrid and it works great. The other is
> running the same but on a 64-bit machine (although running in
> 32-bit
> >>> compatibility mode) and he has been able to get TinyFeather
> Linux to install in the VMWare Workstation, but Windows continually
> >>> gets stuck at different points during the installation.
> >>> Anyone here vouch for VMWare on debian as a host for Windows
> 2000, Windows XP ? Any known issues and known workarounds ? Any
> other
> >>> distro's that you run as a host that work great?
> >> We have a Windows 2000 TSE that runs in VMware for ~100 users,
> the host
> >> is SuSe Pro 9.3.  I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and SuSe 10.1b8
> in VMWare
> >> 5.5.0 build-18463 on SuSe 10.0 right now;  use it all day, it is
> >> completely stable.
> > 
> > Interesting. Just FYI, I'm running Suse 9.3 with VMPlayer 1.0.0
> on a
> > system with 512M ram. My VM has WinXP installed. It ran great for
> a week
> > and then both WinXP and Suse 9.3 started to crawl whenever the VM
> was
> > running.
> > 
> > I wonder if it is a memory issue and/or that I'm using VMPlayer
> instead
> > of VMWorkstation.
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Russell C. Yonkers Jr. 
CNE, MCSA, A+, CCNA, Linux+, Server+, Network+, Security+ certified
-----------------------------------------
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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