CentOS - Oct 2006 - CentOS guest for VMware, any similar setup?

Hi,

	I'm about to setup a CentOS4 server to install VmWare Server on it. 
Then I'll run 2 main guest OS, Microsoft SBS 2003, and a CentOS 
development LAMP server.

	Except from the clock settings, is there any problems/comments?

Regards,

Ugo

On Mon, 2006-16-10 at 15:43 -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm about to setup a CentOS4 server to install VmWare Server on
it. 
> Then I'll run 2 main guest OS, Microsoft SBS 2003, and a CentOS 
> development LAMP server.
> 
> 	Except from the clock settings, is there any problems/comments?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ugo
> 
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We are running multiple instances of of VMware guests mostly linux
guests (CentOS for that matter) and have had no issues. In fact our
development team has not realized that we took away their 4 dev boxes
and replaced them with 1 physical server running running 4 virtual
machines. (2 apache web servers and 2 tomcat application servers).

We also purchased P2V from VMware to migrate several legacy WindowsNT
boxes to VMware images which we are running on 2 beefy CentOS 4.4
servers. 2 x 3.4GHz Xeon 4Gb ram.

Jeff

Quoting Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com>:
> Hi,
>
> 	I'm about to setup a CentOS4 server to install VmWare Server on it.
> Then I'll run 2 main guest OS, Microsoft SBS 2003, and a CentOS
> development LAMP server.
>
> 	Except from the clock settings, is there any problems/comments?
I had it running on VmWare Workstation and ESX.  Nothing special other  
than the clock problems.  If I remember correctly, after updating the  
kernel and rebooting, you'll need to re-run vmware-config.pl script in  
the guest.

You'd probably want to download and install latest version of vmware  
tools on the guest.  Latest version of vmware tools has kernel modules  
that load perfectly into CentOS 4 kernel (if you attempt to install  
too old version of vmware tools, you'd need to recompile the modules).

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I just finished going through the time sync problem, and here's the info I
used:
 
To configure ESX 2.5.x Server: http://tinyurl.com/ycpcfv
To configure Windows Guest OS: http://tinyurl.com/yctxrr
 
To configure CentOS w/o X installed, you still need to install the vmware
tools. Edit the vmx file for your guest, tools.syncTime="TRUE". In
grub.conf, add clock=pmtmr as a kernel option. You'll need to shutdown the
guest OS, reload the vmx file, then restart the system.
 
If you have X running, then you can use the vmware tools much like windows
to configure time sync with the host system.
 
HTH
 
Mark