Yes, VMWare is fit for the task, simply because I would be using it on a windows machine. Unless there is something better for a windows machine?
Thanks for the hints. On 11/3/06, Harm Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 06:43, Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? > > Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that > are all independent of each other, which provide one service. For > instance, I might put apache on one VM, and tomcat on another, and so > on. Obviously, I would want their memory usage to be absolutely > minimized, seeing that I would like to run them all on one computer. > I would probably provide them 64M-128M of RAM each, for their specific > service. Perhaps a little more if really required. > > Is there really anything that I should worry about? Perhaps I should > just DO IT? Nick[1] made a post about minimizing Gentoo a while back. But that topic was mainly about the disk usage. I suppose you would benefit from a system that uses the -Os flag to create small binairies. But do you think vmware is fit for such a task? vmware is a big strain on resources itself. You might want to have a look at xen[2] instead. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/160899/focus=160903 [2] http://www.xensource.com/xen/xen/index.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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