[Novalug] alternative vmware server
The Doctor
drwho@virtadpt.net
Tue Jun 14 13:59:19 EDT 2011
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On 06/13/2011 07:13 AM, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
> I was considering virtualbox but my impression is that this software
> is not that mature. Also Vmware server can be installed in a non
What about VirtualBox gave you that impression?
> graphical installation (like my router) while I'm not that sure
> Virtualbox would work without X running.
It can and does. There are CLI utilities for manipulating VBox instances.
> I was considering moving to ESXi (free) but It doesn't seem easy to
> tweak the underlying CentOS (as a router, I've added a wireless PCI card
> and enabled hostapd). Maybe I'm wrong.
ESXi isn't built on top of CentOS; ESXi is its own OS. It includes a
very stripped down instance of Linux for tweaking the hypervisor a
little and shuffling files around in the filestores, but you can't do a
whole lot with it. To really do anything with ESXi you need to be
running the ESXi client, which definitely exists for Windows (I run it
inside of a Windows XP VM in VirtualBox) and probably exists for MacOSX.
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