From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j44LgBNN029871 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 21:42:11 GMT Received: from [83.218.5.39] (helo=dogmatix.willow.local) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DTRdD-0005WN-6c for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 21:42:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OffTopic: VMWare ESX From: John Mylchreest To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <427940A1.4040005@flaska.net> References: <1115231094.30481.36.camel@localhost> <42791EB4.7070904@gentoo.org> <1115241386.30481.54.camel@localhost> <427940A1.4040005@flaska.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dyRxiOphd30NFch+qjBm" Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 22:42:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1115242928.30481.59.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: cb53a5bb-c07c-426a-a519-8876ed96d6e5 X-Archives-Hash: c7c0d9323889b469267f6cd4c3faa4c7 --=-dyRxiOphd30NFch+qjBm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Unfortunately it has to be vmware. Xen is excellent fro many things, but this ESX server is considerably different to most things. Anyways, aside from that the choice of product has been made. Just not the decision to go with it. So that's what this is for. Some real life feedback. On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 23:37 +0200, Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wrote: > John Mylchreest wrote: > > basically, What I was wanting to know is actual hands-on experience. > > Whats it like? Pros? Cons? What to watch out for? what its exceptionall= y > > good at? whats it exceptionally bad at? bugs? all the normal kind of > > questions really. How is it so different to vmware workstation? what bi= g > > management (of guest OS and resource allocation) features are there? >=20 > *Really* OT here, but you may find Xen (http://xen.sourceforge.net/) > interesting. >=20 > -jkt >=20 --=20 Role: Gentoo Linux Kernel Lead Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org Public Key: gpg --recv-keys 9C745515 =20 Key fingerprint: A0AF F3C8 D699 A05A EC5C 24F7 95AA 241D 9C74 5515 Web: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x9C745515 --=-dyRxiOphd30NFch+qjBm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCeUGwz7mlh8wQzGMRArckAJ92Vc5tFqD1A6ONuyB2TT/z5hfv/QCeJo1K EfeDnmuxva1adtV07rl3wcQ= =VcVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dyRxiOphd30NFch+qjBm-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list