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shawn

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Anybody ever messed w/it?

Wondering if I could use it to stuff 2-3 oses into one box and have each be network accessible. Probably two linux variants on top of XP... or something to that effect.

If they would play nice with the power management settings, that would be a bonus.

The machine in question is a P4 w/1.5gb of ram. Always 'on', but goes S3 after 20 mins of inactivity. Brings itself back up on a schedule using an app in windows (not bios) and/or on directed network queries.

It's either that, or buy this and have it play standalone linux server. Although the ability to run Ubuntu and CentOS simultaneously there would still be nice.
 
I don't have much experience with that software but I do have a lot of experience with virtual machine's. I run ESX server at work, and the thing you might want to take a look at is increasing the ram in your machine. I think the processor will be find as long as you are not doing any heavy processor intensive stuff because linux is good a scheduling and usage of the processor. You just might have a wait a few seconds longer for something really processor intensive to happen.

You might alot look at hosting a small linux distro on the host machine and running VMWare Server http://www.vmware.com/products/server/overview.html. It is a free product and should be fairly easy to use. I can help you out if you need any assistance with it as I use the next step up ESX Server 3.5 we have not migrated to vSphere yet.
 
I have a desktop here at home just for experimenting running Vista. I run two VMWare virtual machines on it. Ubuntu and XP with no problems.
Soon Im going to kill Ubuntu and run VMWare server and network all five computers in the house off of a virtual machine.

You shouldnt have any problems except for tweaking here and there.

If you havnt tried VM Ware, it is great. Very easy and most of the time free.
 
I run VirtualBox on my laptop and main desktop. Main OS is Ubuntu, run whatever I want in a VB session. Great for testing. I have read up on folks running Windows server under VB on Linux...sounds like a pretty smart idea....easy portability from one machine to another if a crash...drivers are keyed to the VB configuration, not the machine.
 
I installed it last night. It'll run the Ubuntu netbook edition and a text-only CentOS session simultaneously, no problem. The software is pretty nice... it just works for the most part. I had problems with a net install of CentOS, but it worked off an iso. Not sure where the problem was.

But the network card (gb Intel) doesn't listen for the vm IP addresses, so you have to call the host IP first to wake up the machine. That's not going to work.

I'll give VMware a spin. See how it works. Thanks.
 
saf-t scissors said:
I installed it last night. It'll run the Ubuntu netbook edition and a text-only CentOS session simultaneously, no problem. The software is pretty nice... it just works for the most part. I had problems with a net install of CentOS, but it worked off an iso. Not sure where the problem was.

But the network card (gb Intel) doesn't listen for the vm IP addresses, so you have to call the host IP first to wake up the machine. That's not going to work.

I'll give VMware a spin. See how it works. Thanks.
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Sounds like more of an issue with the nic, and not being able to listen on multiple vip's for a wake on lan type signal?
(Assuming that's what you were trying?) IF that's the case, I think you're going to have to go away from wake on lan, and deal with always on for the hardware box.
 
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