-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rainer,
On 3/17/2009 4:18 AM, Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH) wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 22:42:27 Christopher Schultz wrote: >> >> Can you clarify this a bit? > > There is no special management instance. VMWare Server is an application that > runs on a regular host operating system instance (it installs linux kernel > modules though, and probably also Windows drivers). Interesting. This used to be called "VMWare Workstation". > "They" (meaning this user > on the VMWare community, who might or might not be associated with VMWare) > say not to run server software on that host operating system. I take that as > a recommendation to dedicate a machine to one purpose only (VM hosting in > that case), which is common practice in many production environments, but no > strict requirement. Okay, this makes sense (not the recommendation, just the explanation). > What do you mean with "the other end"? I use VMWare Server 2 on Ubuntu > (original tar.gz install from vmware.com), also found that it blocks the said > ports, and simply changed the server.xml of the VMWare Tomcat. He still wants the web manager to work, and the /client/ expects to connect on a certain port. If you change VMWare's server-side ports, the client can no longer connect. >> A good question to the VMWare team would be "hey, why did you use >> heavy-ass Java for web interface when you're using virtualized hardware? >> ever heard of lighttpd/php or whatever everybody embeds in their >> routers?". Sheesh... > > Their web interface runs on the regular, non-virtualized host OS and provides > a not too simple web application to configure, manage and monitor the VMWare > server and the virtual machines. I wouldn't think that Java and Tomcat would > be considered unsuitable for such a task on this list :-) It's not that Java isn't suited to this purpose... it just seemed very heavy relative to what I imagined it would actually be doing. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkm/qbsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAflwCfYPn0c4rLbxHipZ7ghnaXgpVj bLsAoKvAitcz2suCNUZV1Nup5A6P0lyW =noPB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
