On 9/10/06, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are a number of ways you could go about this, depending on how much effort you want to put into it. To really minimize the resources needed by the host OS, you could build a minimal Linux system with only the libraries necessary for VMWare installed. I'm not sure exactly what its requirements are these days, but you could possibly have just busybox, an X server, a lightweight window manager, and a lightweight terminal.
You could start with an Ubuntu server install, which is pretty minimal, and as Levi said, add the necessary dependencies for VMWare. Another option would be to build a Gentoo system for it, which would probably be smaller and less resource intensive than the Ubuntu system, and if you're lucky, there might be something in Portage that would get most/all of the dependencies for you. Using -O2 or -Os in your make.conf could result in a small yet responsive Gentoo system with a minimal number of extraneous processes from which to host your VMWare OS's. Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about VMware, even though I have built an extremely compact Gentoo system and am planning another for next time I have a couple of days without homework. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
