Virtual Machine Apps

Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Mon Feb 2 21:03:18 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 14:42, ibnu at lacare.org wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> For testing purposes, we need to place Windows 2000 Server, Linux RedHat 9,
> RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AND Fedora 1 on ONE server.
> 
> We want to easily switch from one OS to another OS on the same machine
> without rebooting.
> 
> Our questions are:
> 1.  Does any one know any Virtual Machine Application out there that we can
> use (other than VMWare)?
> 
> 2.  Does any one use VMWare for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 AND Fedora 1?
> VMWare does not list RHEL 3 and Fedora 1 as supported OS.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ibnu.

I am running WBEL, W2K (not server), W98, Lindows, and some old RH
releases as guest OSs under VMware on a Fedora Core 1 host.  Have not
attempted to use WBEL/RHEL as the host OS. Sensitive issues for VMware
seem to be glibc, kernel, and compiler versions more than the host OS.

Phil






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