[ale] Virtualization question

[Richard Bronosky]

Has VMWare fixed the situation of their management tool (VSphere if I
remember correctly) only running on windows? I don't care how great
their product looks. It is just plain stupid to make your software
only run on the OS of a company who has entered the market for the
purpose of shutting down your business. I don't use products by
organizations who demonstrate such stupidity.

On 11/6/10, Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both for your replies.  I just realized that I had a
> misunderstanding about the vmware license.  I'm going to give that one more
> try.
>
> This is the first that I've heard about LXC.  That's very interesting
> functionality, but I have to read up on it more.  KVM and VirtualBox are
> probably good choices if ESXi doesn't work out for me.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Josh Kite
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM, John Scott <John.Scott at peak10.com> wrote:
>
>>  If you want easy with x86 compatibility and not have to change your base
>> OS preference, check into VirtualBox.  You can get the host hypervisor via
>> apt-get on ubuntu and there is good documentation available on
>> virtualbox.org.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of
>> *Joshua
>> Kite
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:02 AM
>> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> *Subject:* [ale] Virtualization question
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am looking for advice on how to set up some virtual environments for use
>> at home.
>>
>> I have a server, and I want it to have two distinct functions.  One is
>> network filtering, etc. using squid and some other applications.  The
>> other
>> is my basic web/file/print server.  I may want to play with something else
>> in the future, so virtualization seems like the right choice.
>>
>> The hardware that I have available is a dual xeon hyperthreaded 32 bit
>> machine.  And that's the problem.  I would like to run a bare-metal
>> hypervisor, but all of the current ones seem to be for 64-bit only.  That
>> makes sense, but it doesn't work for me.  I actually installed the
>> previous
>> version of VMWare's ESXi only to find out that the free license will only
>> allow me to make use of one of the processors once the trial period is up.
>>
>> So the next option appears to be a light OS for a host system with a
>> hypervisor running inside of it.  I have run Ubuntu for both desktop and
>> server for the past 5 or so years, but I am willing to consider other
>> distributions for both host and guest for the network filtering OS.  I'll
>> probably use Ubuntu for the web/file/print functionality since I'm most
>> familiar with it.
>>
>> I have been fighting with my home server for weeks after a crash, and I'm
>> kind of tired of playing with it, so I am looking for a very dumbed down,
>> easy solution with step by step instructions for installation and
>> automatic
>> startup of guests.
>>
>> Do any of you have recommendations?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Josh Kite
>>
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