roland wrote:
I thank you all for your help
I asked the question on the site of centos and got this:
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Anyway, vmware-server should always be the base and other machines
running as guests inside ... If you need two terminal servers ( a
linux based one with ltsp and the other one with M$ TSE) you need to
know that such machines are cpu (and memory even) intensives. so don't
forget to at least put a lot of memory inside the machine, or divide
the load on 2 or more physical machines ...
Otherwise, vmware-server installs very quick on CentOS, you don't even
have to compile the network modules, since vmware support rhel and so
centos ....
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So as I understand, you have to install first VMware -server and above
it,as guest, the OS's you need.
Centos is a good base for Vmware applics and I hope Stable.
That is correct. In addition to needing plenty of RAM, you should also
note that any
time you get a new kernel in an update (that will happen even with
Centos), you have
to re-run the vmware-configure.pl script before the server will start.
On the plus side,
once the guest images are created, they are very portable. You can move
them to
machines with very different hardware or host OS's (even Windows or now an
intel Mac) without having to change anything. If you can shut the
guest machines
down for the duration of a copy you can do backups by copying the image
files.
Otherwise don't forget to set up some kind of backup within the guests
just like
you would with a real machine.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
