Craig White wrote:
if I buy a new server, would you suggest that I install CentOS/RHEL-xen
and run this as a virtual machine?
No, that was just a suggestion for a test install to figure out how it
works. Once you know where everything belongs, java provides enough of
a virtualization layer.
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well, considering that I really don't have a server (or even a desktop
system) around that I can adequately set up and test, I'm thinking that
this might be a good time to strong arm the boss and buy a new server
that actually has hardware support for virtualization.
The free vmware server will run on about anything if it has enough RAM
to give some to the guest(s).
Thus I am thinking that I could get a rack server with sufficient hard
drive space, 4 GB RAM and a couple of Xeon processors, wait until
CentOS-5.1 and set up so that I could have LTSP & alfresco running under
xen...this makes sense to me, do this make sense to you?
I'm not sure I see the point of virtualizing something that runs fine on
the native OS and that you expect to run unchanged for a long time. On
the other hand, I'd certainly recommend getting an up to date system
with processors that can virtualize 64-bit guests just because those
things are so much faster than the old boxes and you can run a couple of
test instances without bothering your main system. I haven't set up
xen, so I can't compare it against vmware, except that vmware's ability
to run the same guest image on windows/linux/mac hosts has been handy
for me.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
