[dba-Tech] Linux VM server software

John,

I don't know yet, although I may know a bunch more about it by the time 
I finish H-P's three Linux courses.  But, I sure would like to know the 
answer, too.  Hope somebody on this list can tell us.

Tina

jwcolby wrote:
> I am looking seriously at running much of my stuff in virtual machines.  VMs
> run on a server system, and VMWare's VMs don't care whether they run on
> Windows servers or Linux servers.  Since the Linux OS has much lighter
> demands in terms of memory footprint and CPU it seems like an obvious Host
> OS.  Does anyone here have experience in running Linux specifically for the
> purpose of hosting VMWare VMs?
>
> Also does anyone know about assigning CPUs to the VMs and the effects of the
> host OS?  I have a quad core and I need to know if it is legal to assign 2
> cores to each of two virtual machines?  What if I have three virtual
> machines, can I assign two cores to each machine?  IOW will the VM server
> software sort out the results or will it crash and burn?
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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