On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:03:09AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ern jura wrote: > >Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware > >and > >successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware? > > VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the > vmware-config.pl setup script to set the options and install your (free) > license key. Then run vmware locally or from some other machine to > access the console where you can create and start the virtual machines. > Once created, you can treat the virtual machines like they were > separate physical boxes except that they contend for host resources (and > once they are up on the network I prefer to connect directly to them > with ssh, X, freenx, or vnc instead of using the VMware console. You'll > want plenty of RAM on the host machine and if you run several VM's they > will perform better if you can spread them over different disk drives. > > With VMware you can copy your disk images over to a Windows or Mac host > and run them with no changes (Mac version isn't free, though).
This is pretty much what I do. I also keep stock "reference" images
for each OS I support and copy from the reference image every time I
need to deploy a new VM.
I like the idea of Xen, but the documentation is a little thin
especially when it comes to installing useful things like Windows
VMs; I don't have the time to solve the problem properly, and I hope
that in a year or two I can change this.
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