Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-11-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
Dag Wieers wrote: I guess this should become part of the virtualization SIG. Maybe a good listing of different virtualization projects on the SIG page would be a good start ? yes, that sounds good. I don't know if Daniel is still involved, but I am sure that help from others would be very he

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-31 Thread The_Eye_In_The_Sky
John R Pierce wrote: does ESX have all its own direct hardware support? Yes it does. You shall be OK if you want to go for branded hardware from Sun, Dell, HP, IBM etc. But for the whitebox PC, it is quite (and sometimes costly) to get the right combination. My best combo are now : a. get

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:59:46PM -0700, John R Pierce enlightened us: > nate wrote: > >ESX is not based on linux at all. ESX(not ESXi) includes > >a service console that is based off of RHEL-3 though > >that is for management only, virtualization runs entirely > >within the hypervisor which is tr

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: ESX is not based on linux at all. ESX(not ESXi) includes a service console that is based off of RHEL-3 though that is for management only, virtualization runs entirely within the hypervisor which is transparent to the user. I've always been curious, in ESX, what manages the physi

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread nate
Rainer Duffner wrote: > VMware Server needs some OS as base (CentOS5 should do well), but 3i > goes on the bare metal - it's based on RHEL, too, though. ESX is not based on linux at all. ESX(not ESXi) includes a service console that is based off of RHEL-3 though that is for management only, virtu

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: ... For a CentOS VMware pre-built image, look no further ... http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ Akemi, Did not know about those, and can't find any links f

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
Akemi Yagi wrote: These vmware images have been built, maintained and provided by Tru Huynh. I don't think it's been officially announced. I agree this should be more advertised. As long as its clearly highlighted that they wont / dont work with Xen... I suppose they are not vmware specific

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > ... >> >> For a CentOS VMware pre-built image, look no further ... >> >> http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ > > Akemi, > > Did not know about those, and can't find any links from the CentOS home page

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Niki Kovacs
Thom Paine a écrit : I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. I do a lot of sandbox testing, and VirtualBox is just great for the job! Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Akemi Yagi wrote: ... For a CentOS VMware pre-built image, look no further ... http://people.centos.org/tru/vmware/ Akemi, Did not know about those, and can't find any links from the CentOS home page or the Wiki. Am I missing something, or are these TODO items for Johnny and the docs team?

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 30.10.2008 um 20:37 schrieb Thom Paine: I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. You can use either VMware Server 2.0 or VMware VI3i, provided your hardware is supported. VMware Server needs some OS as base

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does not seem like a big load. Pretty easy to give it a try. You can even > DL a CentOS VMware pre-built image for Player and bypass installation: > > http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ > http://www.vmware.com/appli

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
Thom Paine wrote: I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. Yes. My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. We need to have an ldap

[CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-30 Thread Thom Paine
I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing. My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. We need to have an ldap server for publishing email