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I'm not a big fan of Redhat's version of Xen and use the Xen 3.2 packages from xen.org as it has better management features through 'xm'. You will need to compile your own for 64-bit though as they only provide 32-bit binaries by default and if you want to run Xen as a hosting server you really must use 64-bit, but thankfully they provide the SRPM for it which makes that trivial. As far as VMware goes. It works exactly as it does on Redhat Enterprise Linux, so if you go over to the VMware forums and search RHEL, those comments should apply equally well to CentOS. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wed Feb 27 07:12:04 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5 Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware and successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware? ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080227/b50b60a6/attachment.html>
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:> > I'm not a big fan of Redhat's version of Xen and use the Xen 3.2 > packages from xen.org as it has better management features through > 'xm'. You will need to compile your own for 64-bit though as they only > provide 32-bit binaries by default and if you want to run Xen as a > hosting server you really must use 64-bit, but thankfully they provide > the SRPM for it which makes that trivial. > > As far as VMware goes. It works exactly as it does on Redhat > Enterprise Linux, so if you go over to the VMware forums and search > RHEL, those comments should apply equally well to CentOS. > > -Ross > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Wed Feb 27 07:12:04 2008 > Subject: [CentOS] Xen or VMWARE on CentOS 5 > > Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing > VMware and successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or > vmware? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------Hi Ross I'm looking for the same thing, but you have "stirred" somethings up in me. If I want to setup CentOS 5.1 64bit, and make it a XEN host, then install CentOS 5.0 / FreeBSD 6.0 / Fedora Core 7 32bit guests on it, would it work well? And if you say it needs to be pre-compiled, can you please tell me howto do this? What / which files do I need, and how do I get them to work on a 64bit CentOS 5.1? Currently I'm busy creating a custom installation CD for CentOS 5.1 64bit, and would like to then include the re-compiled XEN components in my kickstart. The installation CD installs the bare minimum for CentOS to run as an OS, since we're using cPanel - which installs the rest Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Forum: http://Forum.SoftDux.com Join SA WebHostingTalk today, on http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za
Ern jura wrote:> Does anyone out there have a comprehensive tutorial on installing VMware and > successfully managing virtual machines with either xen or vmware?VMware is pretty simple: download the server rpm, install it, run the vmware-config.pl setup script to set the options and install your (free) license key. Then run vmware locally or from some other machine to access the console where you can create and start the virtual machines. Once created, you can treat the virtual machines like they were separate physical boxes except that they contend for host resources (and once they are up on the network I prefer to connect directly to them with ssh, X, freenx, or vnc instead of using the VMware console. You'll want plenty of RAM on the host machine and if you run several VM's they will perform better if you can spread them over different disk drives. With VMware you can copy your disk images over to a Windows or Mac host and run them with no changes (Mac version isn't free, though). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com