Re: Qemu for Servers? Answer: Yes (for one case, at least)

["Matt Shields-5" <user=70@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Matt Shields <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Randy Cole <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>  > Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>  >  > Vmware server sucks in comparison to virtualbox... 
>  >  I had quite a time getting VMware Server to work under Linux.  Windows 
>  >  install works great, but my windows installation has severe registry rot 
>  >  or something.  Tried it out under Fedora Core 6.  Doesn't match the 
>  >  kernel version - try to recompile something but it doesn't work.  Try 
>  >  under Fedora 8, same problem. 
>  > 
>  >  To get it to work, you have to install the VMware server .rpm.  Then you 
>  >  have to install the "any-any" patch from somebody in the Czech republic 
>  >  I think.  Then you have to go into the patch and untar it and patch 
>  >  three files, re-tar then run the script. 
>  > 
>  >  This is all pretty awkward and gives me pause.  I guess you would have 
>  >  better results under RHEL or Centos, but I would want to run those as 
>  >  virtual servers. 
> 
>  What you need is the vmware-any-any patch. 
>  http://communities.vmware.com/thread/26693
> 
>  -- 
>  -matt 
>