Agreed. I was starting to think Virtual Box, but with Oracle and some of the licensing mods, I plan next to delve into what comes native to linux. CentOS 6 should be out soon and I will probably pick it up there as RHEL6 is based on Fedora 12 and things had modernized fairly well by that point (if ye be a Redhat-leaning man). Not sure about the Debian-leaning side, but I know it is there as well. Do you have a preferred free path on the linux host side now Steve?
________________________________________________________ Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven S. Critchfield Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC ----- Original Message ----- > Note that Vmware server appears to be on a sunset track though. With > newer versions of linux, vmware server will probably continued to > gradually have operational problems as VMware is no longer updating it > to keep pace with linux and windows changes on the host end. Getting > VMware server to run under Windows 7 (64bit in my case) was touch-n-go > and, while I got it to mostly work, it is quirky. Shame really. As more people are moving to the cloud, and linux has free offerings to do windows virtualisation, and Microsoft has virtualisation offerings, and the cloud tools are working to abstract away the real management of the differing core virt tools, I see VMware becoming a smaller and smaller player until it disappears. Why use a third party tool when there are free or supplied by a vendor you already have tools. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
