On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote: >> Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of >> charge, stable, small footprint, ... ? > > I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us. > > Our VM host has some special hardware in it, driven by custom software > which runs just fine in the host OS, but which doesn't work through > virtualization because VMware doesn't know about this class of hardware. > > This server is idle much of the time, so it made sense to give it > secondary duty as a VM host. To switch to ESXi, we'd have to bring up a > separate server (wasteful) and let the current one go back to being idle > much of the time (doubly wasteful). Then give VirtualBox a whirl. Fully supported, works and some say performs better then VMware Server. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
