<font face="arial">As for running VMs as a service in the background,
then I would suggest VMWare Server 2.0. I initially thought that version
2.0 was a complete and utter failure using the web interface, however
people soon learned you can use the Vsphere/ESXi client to connect to
Server v2. If you are then using the Vsphere client you can then shut
down the internal webserver that VMWare runs to manage the VMs and it
really has a decent memory footprint.<br>
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Here is a link to some instructions on using the VSphere client: <a href="http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/accessing-vmware-server-2-with-vsphere-client-the-unsupported-way.html">http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/accessing-vmware-server-2-with-vsphere-client-the-unsupported-way.html</a><br>
<br>I have a machine that was non ESXi compliant, so I had to use
Windows 2003 as the host. Stripped down to only necessary services I
could easily run 2x Windows 2003 AD servers and one Linux VM under
version 2.0. All are set to automatic load upon windows start, so if the
machine is shut down it just takes a couple of minutes longer to load
everything up. Other than that it works flawlessly.<br>
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I might add, if you are looking at running ESXi, do ignore the VMWare
Hardware Comparability list. There are really only two things you need
to run ESXi either 3.5 or 4. That is a compliant NIC and storage
adapter. You can install 3.5 on IDE drives, but need SCSI to create a
datastore. Both ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 can be run off of a USB flash drive, in
fact that is what we run our ESXi servers on. I have a test machine
that is a HP d530 desktop that runs 3.5 that uses an old Adapatec 2940
card, which are a dime a dozen now. <br>
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<br><br>At Saturday, 18-12-2010 on 14:05 Wayne Johnson wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-width: 0pt 0pt 0pt 2px; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(34, 67, 127); padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yea,
that would be a good way to describe it. I develop network
applications that run on different OS. At one time I might be running a
server on Centos, Active Directory on WS2k3, and a client on XP. The
AD machine I would just bring up and run in the background unless I need
to make some user property changes, same with the server. <br><br>Now, I just wish I could find an AIX/PowerPC and Solaris/SPARC VM system.<br><div> </div><span style="font-family: courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">3943 Penn Ave. N. | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">who say to God, "Thy will be done," </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">and those to whom God says, "All right, </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">(612) 522-7003 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis</span><br></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Nesius <nesius@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, December 17, 2010 12:47:48 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list] Running linux from a Windows VM<br></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com">wdtj@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
looked at VirtualBox, but wasn't too impressed. The install forced all
my NIC to disconnect (expected, but still a nuisance). No provision to
run services in the background (that I found). <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Are you talking about running virtual machines as services? Not sure what exactly you meant.... <br><br>-Rob<br></div></div><br>
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