On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 08:57 +1200, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:14 +0100, Dan Wallis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2009/9/16 Aidan Gauland <[email protected]>: > > Your details are a little sketchy. I understand you're interested in > > setting up a web server, to have a play around. If that's not right, > > stop reading now, and let us know what you really meant. > > That's exactly what I want, but a *virtual* server, so I can play with > it (almost) as if it were a separate machine, and because I want to > set up more services later (such as SSH) and don't want to make major > changes to my system. > > --Aidan That's exactly how I do my development work. I have a low power quad core server with 4GB memory ( resources like this get important if you're going to run a few of them ) for this. I don't really recommend running the following on a single core machine...
vmware server 2 ( http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_server/2_0 ) use bridged networking. You can either play with your dhcp server to allocate a "static" ip address to the virtual server's mac address ( my preference ), or set a static one. The virt server will become, to all intents and purposes, just another machine on your home network. vmware has a nifty web based interface to manage and access the servers directly. The only problem is that few resources are shared between physical and virtual machines, so you can get performance degredation all round if you're not careful. However, 256MB is loads of memory for what you're after if you're not running a GUI. Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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