vmware

[roland]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:39:35 +0100, Guillermo Garron  
<guillermo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/20/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Denis Leroy wrote:
>> > Les Mikesell wrote:
>> >> roland wrote:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>> I need some advice.
>> >>> I have a client, car spare parts, who has a lot of
>> >>> Microsoft-programs to install, pricelists and tech-info.
>> >>> So I was thinking:
>> >>> 1.install Fedora as terminal server for internet,mail and office.
>> >>> 2.install vmware above
>> >>> 3.install Microsoft terminal server, as a virtual server of vmware,
>> >>> for the typical MsWin applications
>> >>>
>> >>> Is this a good idea, or is there a better way?
>> >>
>> >> If you are looking for stability in the host OS, fedora probably
>> >> isn't the best choice.
>> >> First you'll have to track down a patch to even make vmware work
>> >
>> > no you won't
>> >
>> I've seen several posts that the module won't compile.  Are they
>> mistaken?
> I had that problem too, but it was not solved by a patch, just a small  
> trick.
>
> http://www.go2linux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=9
>
> but anyway, I agree with your that maybe if it is for his client maybe
> the best option is CentOS, as the have bigger cycles than fedora, and
> a server is supposed to be installed for long time.
> But it is just my opinion.
>
> I use CentOS and Debian for server aplications and Fedora en Ubuntu for  
> Desktop
>
I thank you all for your help
I asked the question on the site of centos and got this:
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Anyway, vmware-server should always be the base and other machines running  
as guests inside ... If you need two terminal servers ( a linux based one  
with ltsp and the other one with M$ TSE) you need to know that such  
machines are cpu (and memory even) intensives. so don't forget to at least  
put a lot of memory inside the machine, or divide the load on 2 or more  
physical machines ...
Otherwise, vmware-server installs very quick on CentOS, you don't even  
have to compile the network modules, since vmware support rhel and so  
centos ....
--
So as I understand, you have to install first VMware -server and above  
it,as guest, the OS's you need.
Centos is a good base for Vmware applics and I hope Stable.

Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba