[wellylug] Setting up & running Virtual systems

[Mian Lin]

Hi Peter,
I recommend to use the vmware server for linux,which is free download from
vmware company now. Using other machines as clients to connect the server.
Don't install gnome and kde,kind of heavyweight desktop,just X is ok from
clients side, let the pc directly boot to the vmware client application
which doesn't occupy much of resource at all.Cheers, Mian


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Sent: Friday, 13 April 2007 3:43 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: [wellylug] Setting up & running Virtual systems

Hi All!
    I have a need to "save" some half dozen Win95/8 boxes
with development environmnents on them so we can ditch the
hardware.
    Does anyone on the list have experience in setting up a
number of virtual systems on a Linux base?
    There is no need for huge performance or concurrency,
just being able to run one of the systems at a time with a
speed in excess of a PII/300 will be fine. Each of the old
systems has at most 3Gb of disc space with 64Mb RAM tops.
    I have a P4/2.66GHz system available with a 160Gb HDD
and I can crank the RAM to 4Gb if necessary.
    Debian is the preferred Linux platform (I use it
already) and I have found it has kvm (18) on the unstable
base, as well as QEMU.
    Any help would be appreciated, off list if you prefer.
    TIA, Cheers, Peter :-)


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