[Novalug] distro choice for hosting VMware for linux challenged DR

Ben Creitz creitz@gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 22:31:58 EDT 2007


On 8/30/07, Anthony Soucek <monkeywrenchit@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I am looking for a
> distro of linux that installs easy and runs VMWare server efficiently
> and securely.

There is a VMware Server RPM... one for the vmware server proper and
one for the web-based console access IIRC.  I run VMware Server at
work with CentOS 5 x86_64 (and now RHEL AS X86_64) for the host OS,
hosting 32- and 64-bit Linux guests and 32-bit Windows guests.

> plan is to run the vmware P2v
> converter and create virtual windows  server guest  to run on linux

I haven't yet played with p2v... let us know how it goes!

> I am shell
> challenged and any advice would be appreciated.

Any time and effort spent getting more "into" the shell will really
pay off in the long run.

Ben



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