Alex Esplin wrote:
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.
Once the base system is running, "emerge vmware-player" ought to bring
in everything you need.
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.
Well, other distributions also use -O2 by default. Although I prefer
Gentoo, I think it's sometimes actually a little slower than SUSE. The
main reason I prefer Gentoo is because it lets me upgrade progressively
rather than wait for 6-18 month cycles.
Shane
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