[geeks] VMware and CentOS

[Ido Dubrawsky]

geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
 >
 > Out of curiosity, what constitutes 'enough disk activity'? FWIW, I've
 > run VMware Server 1.0.x on CentOS 4.x on several boxen (older
 > Compaq/HP DL series 320/360/380s, a Dell PowerEdge 750) w/o seeing
 > this behavior.

Well, with VMware Server 1.0.5 -- if I bring up two machines (Windows 
Server 2003 SP2) the machine now crashes.  If I bring up only one 
machine it appears to be stable.  In the past I could run the system 
with 4 machines continuously and it would crash only if I was doing 
intensive disk activity -- like installing SQL Server, or something else 
like that.

I've got a Solaris virtual machine as well as a couple of Linux/OpenBSD 
virtual machines.  I know that I have a limitation with regards to 
memory but I usually don't bring up more than two or three machines at a 
time.  I'll look into VirtualBox.  Thanks.

Ido

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Ido Dubrawsky
Network Security Architect
dubrawsky.org


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