[Cialug] Virtualization

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I'm also thinking that using a high end laptop might also be a good idea
for me too. I'd really like to be contained and portable.  However,
having a single point of failure on hardware that is difficult to fix,
makes me a little uneasy...


On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:43, Josh More wrote:
> I am using VMWare Workstation to do that on my laptop.
> 
> The base is OpenSUSE 10, and I have virtual environments for:
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise 2
> Red Hat Enterprise 3
> Red Hat Enterprise 4
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
> FreeBSD 6
> Windows XP (sometimes)
> 
> Once I got it set up, it works very well.  Setting them up (the way I
> did) required some special boot options.  See, you get noticably better
> performance if you use physical partitions instead of VMWare's virtual
> disks.  But if you do this, you need to create virtual boot floppies so
> that VMWare knows how to boot the system.
> 
> FreeBSD and Windows XP do not handle this method well, so they run
> slower than my Linux installations.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
> >>> dave at 58ghz.net 02/03/06 7:28 AM >>>
> Is anyone doing any virtualization? It would be really handy for me if I
> could run RHEL 3, RHEL 4 and windows XP all on the same box, and
> "toggle" in between running systems. (it would also give me an excuse to
> finally buy that monster AMD 64 machine with a 24in LCD display)
> 
> What software are you using to do the virtualization? How does it work
> for you?
> 
> :) Dave
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