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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Running VMware Player under Linux

Now, just so you know, I'm not ANTI-Linux by any stretch of the imagination. I've been around long enough to know that a person should use the right tool for the job. I hate reading all these flame wars online about how "Linux is the best, no windows is, no, os/2 is." :) I couldn't resist that last one. No doubt it will get me in trouble with the die hard IBM guys out there. (Hi Joe!)

But really. Let's put things in perspective. Yes, windows is easier, yes Linux is harder. No it doesn't mean that if you are a windows admin, you're a loser! Does it sound like I have a complex? It should... but I don't. I'm not a sys admin. I work on routers & switches... oh and a few VMWare ESX servers... mostly the infrastructure part, anyway.

I'll admit that I don't know a ton about Linux. I do know, though that it is not for everyone... and it is not equal to windows. NOTHING in this world is equal. God made it that way! Thankfully, too. How boring would it be if we were all equal in every respect? Enough ranting... I'm completely off topic. Enjoy the article anyway... besides, since it was on linux.com, not windows.com, it was targeted at Linux users... so why did I get so freaked out? Maybe I DO have a complex.

Posted By: Jim on Thursday, February 02, 2006
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1 Comments:

  • Lame. The previous/next article was flamed because most of the problems with Xen were installing guest OSes. Gee, that sounds like what this problem is.

    Installing OSes isn't easy - and virtualization doesn't change that.

    The one serious difference I've found between Linux and Windows (which I've bug reported to VMware, BTW) is that a reinstall of a new version (what normal folk call an upgrade) under Windows loses your network configuration. It's preserved under Linux.

    One problem under Linux is that it doesn't like X servers with high bit depths. It wants 16 bit, but most folks don't want to step their entire X server down for VMware. The answer I've found is to use VNC, even if it's local, it's a separate X server which can be invoked with --depth 16 to make VMPlayer happy.

    -----Burton

    By Burton Strauss, at February 02, 2006 9:26 AM  

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