On 15 Jan 2010, at 5:49 pm, Thomas Neumann wrote:
hiya
Actually, you can, but the extent to which you can rather depends on
the OS being deployed.
Even if VMware ~could~ fully customize linux VMs I still wouldn't
use it.
Why?
Because it still can not manipulate Xen- / Hyper-V VMs or even
physical
hosts.
Indeed not, but conversely I can't use FAI to deploy arbitrary x86
operating systems; I know it can be persuaded to do pretty much any
Linux flavour, after varying degrees of work. Don't get me wrong, I
love FAI too, and we've been using it for years. I was merely
responding to Thomas' saying that he didn't think VMware could modify
machines as it cloned them. It's not something I do often, and then
only when cloning Windows machines. Our Linux servers are done with
cfengine, which has its problems but runs on pretty much everything,
which is why I use it.
P.S.: Is it okay if I found a new religion based on worshipping
FAI? ;)
But of course. There's nothing wrong with a bit of open source
evangelism. :-)
Tim
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