[TriLUG] VMware question

Jim Ray jim at neuse.net
Mon Feb 3 09:30:46 EST 2003


the problem is finding a notebook that will house enough ram to run 8 os.  me thinks a non-notebook solution is in order.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Vestal [mailto:rvestal at trilug.org]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:29 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VMware question


However, if you have an INORDINANT amount of RAM, you can run up to 8 VM's
on your machine. I have only 512MB on the box so I can only run 1 or 2.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Flanagan" <kevin at flanagannc.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VMware question


> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 19:50, David R. Matusiak wrote:
>
> Check out VMWare's site, IIRC, the ESXserver is for larger systems where
> you may want to run many VMs at the same time, displaying over the
> network to various X displays.
>
> There are places that have set up a really large Sun system that runs
> dozens of VMs for a variety of things, development, or just to have a
> bunch of virtual servers.
>
>
>
> Kevin
>
> > yeah, i was wondering the same thing.  i haven't spent time at the
> > <www.vmware.com> website since around V2.0 or so (whenever you could
> > get a free copy by using SUSE).  back then, their menu options were
> > much simpler and coherent.  now it seems they have 'low-end' Workstation
> > and then two completely similar versions of Server.
> >
> > whats up wit dat?
> > /drm
> >
> > On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:43  PM, Jim Ray wrote:
> >
> > > How come they offer that other server flavor for more $$$ if the $300
> > > flavor runs servers?
> >
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