[opensuse] about virtualisation
Hi all, Perhaps somebody can explain something to me.... I've been using XEN (both full and para) for quite some years now, with several types of dom-u guest-os'es. So all the clients i build, are XEN-images. However. now-and-then a co-worker comes to me with a vmware-client, that they used to have running on a ESX-server, that apperently runs under RH. Can i also run these images on a SuSE-machine? On the OBS, in the home directories of frispete: and worldcitizen i detected things like : home:/frispete:/vmware-server-compat/openSUSE_11.1_Update/x86_64/vmware-server-compat-1.0.9-7.5.x86_64.rpm I would rather consolidate my patforms to SuSE, either open or sles, if possible. If one virtualisation platform is better equiped for some jobs then others, so be it. But in that case i would like to know what the advantages are of vmware. Any info/comparisons concerning: - stability - number of clients - network-throughput - disk-throughput - hardware delegation towards virtual clients (usb, pci) I don't mind spending, but it should be based of facts, not on personal preferences or from historical backgrounds.... Hope To Hear, hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 December 2009 12:28:13 am Hans Witvliet wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps somebody can explain something to me....
I've been using XEN (both full and para) for quite some years now, with several types of dom-u guest-os'es. So all the clients i build, are XEN-images.
However. now-and-then a co-worker comes to me with a vmware-client, that they used to have running on a ESX-server, that apperently runs under RH.
Can i also run these images on a SuSE-machine?
Well you can almost always run a client image on any platform unless it had some obscure hardware that the client image depended on. You can use the Free Vmware Player if nothing else.
If one virtualisation platform is better equiped for some jobs then others, so be it. But in that case i would like to know what the advantages are of vmware.
Well clearly there are differences. VMware Workstation targets it self as a development platform and tries to run ad many different client OSs as possible. It also goes for integration of applications running inside a virtual machine into the Host's own desktop. It largely pulls this off quite nicely, so that you can run a windows application on your Opensuse machine and it looks like its all the same desktop. Vmware Server (free) aims for running machines headless usually to provide a sandboxed service on a host machine. Some of the other products, like QEMU are very lightweight emulation platforms which have very little in the way of hardware emulation. Vmware's strength is hardware emulation. I can even run Vista Aero theme in a virtual machine inside my OpenSuse host on Vmware Workstation 7. You read the lists long enough and you will find that the other virtualization platforms are kind of hit or miss. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 04 December 2009, 09:28:13 Hans Witvliet wrote:
Hi all,
Perhaps somebody can explain something to me....
I've been using XEN (both full and para) for quite some years now, with several types of dom-u guest-os'es. So all the clients i build, are XEN-images.
However. now-and-then a co-worker comes to me with a vmware-client, that they used to have running on a ESX-server, that apperently runs under RH.
Can i also run these images on a SuSE-machine? On the OBS, in the home directories of frispete: and worldcitizen i detected things like : home:/frispete:/vmware-server-compat/openSUSE_11.1_Update/x86_64/vmware-s erver-compat-1.0.9-7.5.x86_64.rpm
Well, I keep VMware-server 1.0 alive on my systems for historical reasons, because I absolutely dislike the 2.* versions and I was too tired to rebuilt stuff for every kernel update. The other packages there are necessary for using vmware-server as OpenLDAP user, as it was disagreeing with pam_ldap about matching openssl 0.9.7 libs on 11.1 (and before).
I would rather consolidate my patforms to SuSE, either open or sles, if possible.
When using my packages, a brief feedback would be nice. Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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John Andersen