Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sun Sep 18 13:55:14 CDT 2011
Hi Mark Thanks! Don't know why I couldn't locate that link. Anyway, it seems that the ESXi has been rebranded and it supports 32 GB ram. /gustav >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 18-09-2011 17:10 >>> Hi Gustav, A few things to report since Friday night. I downloaded and installed vSphere on to bare metal. Whole process took not more than 15 mins. I used a program named UnBootin to create a bootable USB Stick from the ISO image so I do not have to mess around with old fashioned CDs. UnBootin works really great. I have registered and requested an licence key from VMware and have recieved it, but I have not entered it yet, because for some reason, I only requested 1 and I am anxious not to waste it in case I struggle to get another. Having said that, I can apply with a different email and I suppose they will just give me another few. You can read all about the free vShpere here<http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.html> When I enter the key, and if it works, I will let you know. Once I did the 15 mins to get the image, make a bootable USB from the ISO and then boot the machine, I installed it all on a little AMD Phenon II quad core machine I happpen to have here. The dos type screen just has a few settings to set your network values. It can do nothing else. The next step is to download and install the Vmware client tools which are amazing. Once I did that I kicked off three VM's (Ubuntu, XP and Win7), told VMWare to allocate 4 GB each, and powered them up (My little AMD box only has 4 gb in total) but VMware can dynamically allocate the RAM - really cool stuff. I have some more playing to do with it, but for now, I am shocked at how good it is and would never again consider playing with Virtual PC or Win2k8 and its HyperV. BTW, I am trying to learn a little about Linux as well at the moment, Natty Narwhal ! Mark On 16 September 2011 23:07, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Mark > > OK, but that is trialware only, right? > > /gustav > > >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 16-09-2011 23:52 >>> > Hello Gustav, > > Sorry for the delay, I have been struggling with Win 7 and restore points > for 48 hours. Sometimes I hate Microsoft. > > The link for free vShpere is > https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/index.php?p=free-esxi5&lp=default > > I like the idea of installing it in the usb and booting from that. No > messing with CDs of disks. > > I have not installed it yet, but hope to do so soon > > Mark