[Wolves] VMPlayer Etc

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 09:04, James Turner wrote:

> When you say you need to partition the physical drive, I suspect you are
> thinking of the VMware Infrastructure/ESX Server commercial product line,
> which runs "directly on bare metal hardware". According to Wikipedia [1],
> this product line uses a customised version of Red Hat Linux 7.2 to
> bootstrap "a stripped-down proprietary kernel (based on Stanford
> University's SimOS) that replaces the Linux kernel after
> hardware-initialization." This proprietary kernel is presumably what the
> article calls "vmkernel".

I see, thanks for putting me straight.

I spent the evening trawling through the VM Appliances and theres a lot of 
guys out there putting a lot of work into benefiting the community at least 
90% of appliances are Linux based and most are pre-configured for specific 
roles there are a couple of pre-configured Nagios (Network systems 
monitoring) appliances. One guy has even built one with instructions that 
even my one brain cell can follow for sticking it on a flash drive and using 
it in your customers sites.

While it might take the fun out of installing stuff yourself for people like 
me it is a god send in time saving I'm gonna have a look then decide if I 
want to climb the mountain to get it installed (My first attempt was 80% 
successful).

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Peter Cannon
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