I am a bit leery of VMware at this point even though that is what I have
been using mainly. My huge problem being no vSphere client for Windows 7 or
Linux. I am probably going to look more into the Xen side of things since I
have heard good things.

~Andrew

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:23:21 -0500, "Randy Clarksean"
<rclarksean at arvig.net> wrote:
> I echo the comments below on ESXi.  I am only running the 32bit version
at
> present, but I run an old Windows 2000 OS and Fedora Core 5 on it
without
> any problems … all very seamless.  I would assume the same is true with
the
> 64 bit versions.
> 
>  
> 
> Performance is very good.  At present, I am running it on a dual
processor
> Xeon box from Dell.  Looking at a quad Xeon processor 64 bit system as
my
> next upgrade.
> 
>  
> 
> Randy
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Elvedin Trnjanin
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:33 AM
> To: Kathryn Hogg
> Cc: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] VMWare 2.0.2 on Linux
> 
>  
> 
> Kathryn Hogg wrote: 
> 
> Wayne Johnson wrote:
>   
> 
> Anyone tried VMWare Server 2.0.2?  I’ve tried it on my new AMD64 quad
> core and had lots of problems. Just wondering if it's me or the
software.
>     
> 
>  
> I unfortunately have to do the bulk of my development work in Windows
even
> though its all J2EE.  So I keep linux as my host OS and run XP in
virtual
> machine for the coding/testing.
>  
> I used to use vmware server but it seemed like their drivers would
always
> fail to compile and I would get some strange kernel panics.  I've
switched
> over to virtualbox.  It runs smoother, I've yet to have a problem with a
> kernel upgrade, and the seamless mode is great.
>  
>   
> 
> Have you considered running ESXi and all of the operating systems you
need
> on top of it? Compatibility (apart from hardware) should not be an issue
in
> such a setup and performance would be better if you require multiple
> virtual machines running at the same time. If you intermittently need a
few
> virtual machines, then Virtualbox is certainly a great solution as I use
it
> too.

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