Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Another VMware question

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Thu, October 11, 2007 03:57, Kari Mattsson wrote:
> Marc wrote:
>
>> Kari,
>>
>>
>> VMware have recently released an open source version of their VMware
>> Tools.
>>
>
> This I didn't know. Good news, and not entirely surprising.
>
>
> Perhaps that this can regularly be incorporated in DL...
>
>
> I'd like to see that, too. At least with v1.3.

I alreday have it on my todo list, I hope I'll get to it soon.
Since I'm a heavy VMWare (Server) user, I'll add it to both versions.

> VMware
>
>> seems like an excellent platform to run DL in.
>
> Not only seems, but it really is. I've been doing it 2+ years on several
> ESX Servers without any problems.
>
>
> I am not sure how many
>
>> people out there run DL in an ESX environment, but my tests have shown
>> that a VM running a fresh install of DL uses only about 40MB RAM and
>> about 100MHz of CPU cycles.
>
> These are my experiences, too.
> Due to that, I always create one DL VM for a certain purpose.
> One for OpenVPN, one for mail filtering, one for DNS, one for firewall,
> etc. I run VMs like applications or services.
>
> Rather cool :-)

I do the same, it's pretty cool. The only problem with VMWare Server is
that it's slower. But I'm already eying an upgrade for my server
(donations are welcome ;-) ).

>> Please have a look at the VMware website regarding the open source
>> project:
>>
>>
>> http://www.vmware.com/resources/opensource/projects.html
>>
>>
>> And here is a link to the actual project, where the tools can be
>> downloaded:
>>
>>
>> http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org