Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Running VMware Server on Devil-Linux

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

Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@re...>:

>> I recently switched to the free ESXi and I like it a lot.
>
> Agree!  ESXi is a great product.
>
> I've used it in production for a couple clients.
>
>> The main problem with ESXi
>
> The other main problem with ESXi is a Windows-only client is required
> to administer it.  Which for us Mac & Linux only households, it means
> I still need a copy of the old VMware-server (free) on Linux, or
> VMware-Fusion (not free) on Mac to run Windows to admin VMware-ESXi.
> :-(

I have a Windows VM running with the client installed. ;-)

>> is the limited hardware support, I ended up
>> replacing a few components of my server to be able to use ESXi.
>
> I'd love to be able to run ESXi at home on an old PC, but I haven't
> attempted it yet.  (and I don't want to spend thousands of dollars on
> "supported" server hardware)
>
> What problems did you run into?  What hardware did you replace to  
> make it run?

It was a step-by-step process, but I basically I ended up replacing my  
3ware sata raid controller with a LSI1068E one (supermicro has a cheap  
one), replaced the NIC with a Intel based Gig desktop card and also  
ended up replacing my board/cpu/ram since I wanted the hw  
virtualization support.

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


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