<div dir="ltr">My Former employer did the same thing, diddo on the VMWare Server Experiences.<br><br>For those that have not gone down the virtualization road - <br>Beware Exchange 2000 servers, Exchange Mail Stores without SP2, Domain Controllers, and Conversion!<br>
<br>VMware Converter had a bug prior to version 3.01 - in which it corrupted the network stack/winsock.<br>Once the conversion was done the damage could not be reversed - so beware.<br>The problem shows up more on Linux hosts, your network adapter (only when loaded) will appear to go from maximum throughput to ~10kb/s over and over again several times a second.<br>
<br>All of our virtual machines were built from scratch - Mostly from paranoia.<br><br>Microsoft originally stated they would be supporting Linux as a guest operating system (but they didn't), I'm not sure what their current hypervisor offerings are - and what memory limitations are for their free products. If they would have only supported Linux as a<br>
guest, or allowed for more memory on the host I would have been open minded - anyone using Microsoft Virtualization?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com">adamtaunowilliams@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:41 -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:<br>
> > And if you want more hardware support (at the cost of lower<br>
> > performance), you can always use the standard VMware Server product<br>
> > that runs on top of most Linux distro's.<br>
> > I believe they just released version 2.0 of the standard VMware<br>
> > Server. I run XP in VMware Server version 1 at home on top of Ubuntu<br>
> > 8.04, and it works fine. Never tried v2, except for one of the early<br>
> > beta releases, which I never got to run at all.<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Just today I installed VMWare Server 2 on one of my Ubuntu 8.04<br>
> computers at work. The web-based (via FF plugin) Virtualization<br>
> Manager is very different from v1, but it is running well.<br>
<br>
</div>I used VMware Server v1 for production servers up until we got ESX<br>
(which we did about a two weeks before it became free!). It worked<br>
reasonably well; it was slower than ESX and it often 'leaked' when you<br>
created/released snapshots. It didn't remove the snapshot files, so<br>
some of the VMs got really big over time.<br>
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