Stefan, I think a related thread was discussed a couple of weeks ago.
In my case, this is not something I'm doing, not running amanda within the virtual machine. Rather I am running amanda in the (Solaris) global-zone and using it to backup the non-global zone data, since its the partent/owner of all of the partitions. While I haven't tried recovery, I recall from the previous thread that amanda recovery of data from within the zone was successful. Pretty sure you can assign zones resources that aren't mounted as part of the global zone, but I have not done so. Well, in Solaris, I don't have a working knowledge of VMware. On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Greets, amanda-users, > > has anyone successfully tried to use Amanda inside a VM, especially one > running on VMware ESX Server? > > ESX does bring its own hardened OS and from the infos I got so far it > isn't possible to just install additional software (I will test that as > soon my test license is here). > > So the idea of the customer was to run amanda inside a VM, accessing the > physical tape(loader). > > I am unsure about the overall performance, though. > > Thanks for any ideas, > > Stefan --- Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
