Dear virt list I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the GUI, e.g. they are not text only. Is it better to use VMware server or Xen? If using Xen, do I have to convert the images? Regards, Peter -- Dott. Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH Via Johann Kravogl-Str. 2 I-39012 Meran/Merano (BZ) Email: peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com Tel. : +39 0473 494949 Fax : +39 0473 069902 www : http://www.r3-gis.com
On 07/10/2009 08:34 PM, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:> Dear virt list > > I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 > 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine > with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the > GUI, e.g. they are not text only. > > Is it better to use VMware server or Xen? >"better" depends strictly on your needs and expertise. It's simpler to go the vmware server way, since all you have to do is to install the vmware-server rpm and register the existing VMs with it. By coincidence I've done exactly that 2 days ago. OTOH, xen is supported by the centos [and the wider linux] community , vmware is supported by others. Choose your poison :)> If using Xen, do I have to convert the images? >Yes, you do. Most probably you'll need to play at least with vmware-vdiskmanager
Hi Peter, Am Freitag, den 10.07.2009, 19:34 +0200 schrieb Peter Hopfgartner:> Is it better to use VMware server or Xen?As i can say both vm solutions works just fine. I use xen at home for "private pleasure"and cant say any worse about it. Vmware runs in the company i work. vmware in my opinion only wins if you can use vcenter and ESX Server. But at least its just a "weapon of choice".> If using Xen, do I have to convert the images?Take a look at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VMDKImage i never done it but it schould work as it seems Best wishes Joerg
Peter Hopfgartner wrote:> Dear virt list > > I have some virtual machines running on my notebook under VMWare 6.5.2 > 64 bit that I would like to move to a current 64 bit CentOS 5.3 machine > with a current Intel Xeon processor. The virtual machines do use the > GUI, e.g. they are not text only. > > Is it better to use VMware server or Xen? > > If using Xen, do I have to convert the images? > > Regards, > > Peter > > >1: you can not run XEN and VMWare server at the same time. VMWare refuses to install with a XEN-enabled kernel. 2: A How-To for migrating CentOS images is at http://www.funkypenguin.info/tutorial/how-to-convert-a-centos-5-vmware-image-to-xen/ Will try it next week. Peter -- Dott. Peter Hopfgartner R3 GIS Srl - GmbH Via Johann Kravogl-Str. 2 I-39012 Meran/Merano (BZ) Email: peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com Tel. : +39 0473 494949 Fax : +39 0473 069902 www : http://www.r3-gis.com