Hi, I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 Mbytes RAM. first what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? thanks, Guillermo Garron
Guillermo Garron wrote:> Hi, > I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 > Mbytes RAM. first > what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? > > Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? > thanks, > Guillermo GarronGuillermo, The vmware docs are pretty good, so just follow those to install. VMPlayer can only use virtual machines that are already created, either with the full version of VMware WS, or Server. I use VMware server for all my uses now, I've been a VMware WS user since 4.0 days. So far, server has been fine and I can't argue about the cost! HTH Mark
Guillermo Garron wrote:> Hi, > I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 > Mbytes RAM. > first > what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? > > Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done?You might want to start here: <http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html> VMPlayer is only to "play" or run prebuilt machines. If you're planning to actually install the machine(s), then you'll need to use the VMware Server so that you can create/edit machines. Careful with your memory though...meaning don't allocate too much to your VM's. You'll find all the help and docs you need at VMWare. They have RPM's that are easily installed on CentOS. Max
VMWare Player cannot create VMs. It is used to run existing VMs (either open source based VMs available for download from VMWare's Virtual Appliances directory ( http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/ ) or created with another version of VMWare). VMWare server does allow the creation of VMs. If I understand some of the things I'm reading (and my use here at work of server and esx), major differences between server and it's payware cousin VMWare workstation are: - Server runs as a Windows service/Linux daemon - Server is client/server based. You use a console application to access your VM. (something akin to VNC) - Features Workstation has that Server does not: snapshotting of VMs, full screen mode, shared folders Here's some discussion from VMWare forums back in February: http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=347924 -Shawn Guillermo Garron wrote:> Hi, > I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 > Mbytes RAM. > first > what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? > > Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? > thanks, > Guillermo Garron > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
The only time you'll need to upgrade the vm_mod module is if it won't load into a newer kernel. When you run vmware-config.pl, it'll tell you so and prompt you to create a new module. Pretty painless. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel at home.tzo.org] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:53 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare I just upgraded my kernel via yum and I didn't need to make any changes for vmware to continue to work optimally. Anthony On 7/22/06, Guillermo Garron < guillermo.fedora at gmail.com <mailto:guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> > wrote:> I'm not familiar with that package. VMware is very very easy to install, > though so I'm not sure where you're getting it's hard to install. It's > simply an RPM file to install. It runs through a configuration utility, > where you answer a few questions (usually the defaults are good), and > then you start the console with one command. > > Compared to other packages, VMware does a much better job at > communicating with your hardware. It's more true virtualization compared > to other software just tricking the system. Each virtual machine is > isolated from the other, so you should be careful about other packages > in regards to issues like this. >You were rigth it is really easy to install, and has no comparation with QEMU it is like being in an old VW and then in a Bugatty!! :) I have only one concern it had to compile a module for my kernel, so when I update my linux Kernel with yum, i will loose my VMWare ? I think yum is not take care of that :) regards, Guillermo. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060722/053b1e48/attachment-0001.html>