VMWare and Fedora 13

[Chris Kloiber]

Really? Last I knew it would not even run unless it found particular 
raid adapters, or a fiber san connection. Must look into it again...

On 08/20/2010 11:58 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 21:24 -0400, Chris Kloiber wrote:
>> On 08/20/2010 12:15 AM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Otherwise, you need to just run a Type 1 hypervisor, which leaves you
>>> with VMware ESXi Free edition. It's limited in what it can do compared
>>> to the full version, but it definitely works, and works well.
>>
>> I haven't looked into that much, but I understand you need some serious
>> hardware to make ESXi boot. Much more than the typical desktop, anyway.
>> Have you gotten this to work on a whitebox (no raid) one random nic???
>
> Yes I have. Compared to an older desktop computer, yes you need a little
> more serious hardware. This is not a desktop hypervisor.
>
> Ideally, you want at least 1 good quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM.
> Two processors and 8GB will start to give you some real capacity. You
> also really want plenty of Gig-E NICs (starting with 4), unless you can
> afford 10G Ethernet - a couple of 10G NICs will hold you for a long
> time. It then tends to scale up from there, but more so in terms of how
> many virtual machines you can run as opposed to how fast they run.
>
> I have a server in my church with 4GB RAM, 2 Gig-E NICs, and a single
> Quad-Core CPU. I could realistically run 3 to 4 VMs of average size on
> it, but would need more RAM to do anything more than that.
>
> Ironically, on the lower end of the scale, it's possible, if you have
> VMware Workstation on a decently powered desktop, to run ESXi in a VM.
> Virtualizing Hypervisors is done more for training purposes than
> anything else. It's not fast, but it works well enough to give you a
> good idea of what a larger system would need.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>


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