On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > Joe, > > Since you have vmware in your environment, why not setup an additional > "whitebox" test vmware host with the free version on desktop grade hardware? > From there you could personally experiment and learn more about vmware > without risking anything that is in production. You can google for whitebox > setups and see if you might have hardware handy that will run it. it will > usually run OK on any Intel-brand motherboard with quad+ core cpus. I know
It will run on anything with hardware virt support.
> You can load CentOS 6 Linux Minimal 64bit (avoid the 32bit, it is
> deprecating) - under vmware to boot if you get that up and running:
32bit is, and will remain, fully supported. There also will be 32bit C7
releases, contrary to the Red Hat upstream. There are many reasons to
continue to run 32bit instances, least of which is overheard.
I would advise staying away from the minimal; use a netinstall image.
> Install CentOS and take default filesystem layout (and most other defaults).
> Minimal version is barebones and loads a specific set of packages.
It misses so much it's not even funny (openssh-clients, man, network
doesn't come up by default in many cases, etc).
John
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