Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] VMware questions

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

> What is the advantage of the VMware modules that come with DL, over
> running DL in a VM without the modules?

Advantages:
Performance (especially the network driver), some better memory
management, ability to shut down guest.

> Do the included DL VMware modules work with ESX 3.5 and ESX 3i, along
> with the free VMware server?

Yes they will work on all versions.
ESX 3.5 actually supports VMI, which is turned on per default in DL. This
should give it a nice performance boost.
VMWare Server 2.0 will also support this, but is still in beta (and beta 1
doesn't run very good).

> I seem to recall the VM modules are broken in DL 1.3.  Is that still
> true?  (the VM modules build just aborted for me)  Anything I can do to
> help fix it?

No they work now.
And we're actually using the opensource version.

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