[Cialug] Virtualization

[Dave Weis]

It looks like vmware is giving away esx server now to entice you into 
buying gsx server.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:

> I'm also thinking that using a high end laptop might also be a good idea
> for me too. I'd really like to be contained and portable.  However,
> having a single point of failure on hardware that is difficult to fix,
> makes me a little uneasy...
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:43, Josh More wrote:
>> I am using VMWare Workstation to do that on my laptop.
>>
>> The base is OpenSUSE 10, and I have virtual environments for:
>>
>> Red Hat Enterprise 2
>> Red Hat Enterprise 3
>> Red Hat Enterprise 4
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
>> FreeBSD 6
>> Windows XP (sometimes)
>>
>> Once I got it set up, it works very well.  Setting them up (the way I
>> did) required some special boot options.  See, you get noticably better
>> performance if you use physical partitions instead of VMWare's virtual
>> disks.  But if you do this, you need to create virtual boot floppies so
>> that VMWare knows how to boot the system.
>>
>> FreeBSD and Windows XP do not handle this method well, so they run
>> slower than my Linux installations.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP
>>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>>  515-245-7701
>>>>> dave at 58ghz.net 02/03/06 7:28 AM >>>
>> Is anyone doing any virtualization? It would be really handy for me if I
>> could run RHEL 3, RHEL 4 and windows XP all on the same box, and
>> "toggle" in between running systems. (it would also give me an excuse to
>> finally buy that monster AMD 64 machine with a 24in LCD display)
>>
>> What software are you using to do the virtualization? How does it work
>> for you?
>>
>> :) Dave
>

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