It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. I cannot seem to locate a CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. I can get a copy of 5.3 and 5.4. If I take this route, what should I expect running VMware 2.0.1? Thanks, Gene Poole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091029/4a7f8791/attachment-0002.html>
gene.poole at macys.com wrote:> It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the > exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support > matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. I cannot seem to > locate a CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. I can get a copy of 5.3 and 5.4. If I > take this route, what should I expect running VMware 2.0.1?My VMware Server 2.0.1 instances all still seem to run normal. I've been running them on 5.3 for quite some time, and this week on 5.4 with no issues. I wouldn't expect any problems. I'm running x86 versions of everything. Regards, Max
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, <gene.poole at macys.com> wrote:> It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the > exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix > for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. ?I cannot seem to locate a > CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. ?I can get a copy of 5.3 and 5.4. ?If I take this > route, what should I expect running VMware 2.0.1? > > Thanks, > Gene PooleI am running VMware Server 2.0.1 on CentOS 5.2 and 5.3 with no problems. Search this mailing list for info on 5.4, as I think there was a small issue that needed to be worked around.
gene.poole at macys.com wrote:> It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with > the exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support > matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1. I cannot seem to > locate a CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy. I can get a copy of 5.3 and 5.4. If > I take this route, what should I expect running VMware 2.0.1?my experience with VMWare Server 2.0.x on x86_64 platforms is abysmal. its totally unstable and unusable, on both Linux (RHEL 5.x) and Windows Vista 64bit, even if you are just running 32bit VMs.