Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> Hi Declan,
>
> >I'd sooner see the error on your box. The real box
> >error please, not the vmware box.
>
> I don't think you should rule out VMWare like that: On the system I'm
> building right now, I will have four physical servers: One running the
> firewall, one running internal servers, one running DMZ servers, and a
> last one running Windows servers for a client.
>
> The last three boxes will run VMWare and a whole range of servers: The
> DMZ box, as example, will run four virtual Linux machines with
> web-hotel, mail-hotel, file-hotel, and spam filtering. Whilst my present
> interest in HLFS is for the firewall, ultimately it would be nice
> running HLFS on the individual machines in the DMZ as well.
>
> So for me, VMWare is very much a production system, not just a toy. All
> the more interesting as VMWare has just released the VMWare Server
> Edition for free ;-).
>
> Their big-iron edition (which is definately not free) runs on top of a
> customized Linux server as well, by the way.
I'm not ruling out vmware. But I'm not hugely familiar with it
either, and could offer no practical help on the possible gotchas.
Broken boxes I am familiar with :-).
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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