On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Rob Kampen<rkam...@kampensonline.com> wrote: > One of my clients use a software product that is "upgrading" and will > shortly utilize micro$oft SQL server 2005. > Currently the clients are XP on older machines with the database residing on > a Samba / CentOS server and this works very well. > Question: Does anyone run SQL server from XP in a virtualbox on CentOS? > Any other configuration that works on a linux server? > I do not want to have to buy another server grade machine just for this > application.
What about Xen or Vmware virtual server running on the CentOS box? Do they need the full SQL 2005 or will the Desktop/Developer or free edition do? What about converting the CentOS box to VMware ESXi 4 with a CentOS VM and a SQL 2005 VM? If the CentOS box is a good server grade machine with plenty of CPU and RAM it would perform well with ESXi, then you can do parallel upgrades of the VMs without additional hardware or downtime. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
