[cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

[Michael Thompson]

Exactly, and that's how I ended up on Server 2008.  tried vista x64 and ran
into a bunch of PITA problems.

Once everything came out in the wash as far as Windows overhead, I ended up
with somewhere between 3.2 and 3.4Gb or RAM.  

Long story short, after my lab attempt next week I'm probably going to
migrate this box to dual boot XP (for gaming and cheesy stuff like that) and
Ubuntu (or some other simple open source Linux) for the VM pieces.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:39 PM
To: Michael Thompson
Cc: Carter, Bill; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free

Yeah, that won't work, ESX is very hardware specific

Just a side note, because I see this misunderstanding a lot.

On a 32-bit OS, you have a 32-bit memory address space, which equates
to roughly 4 billion address locations (about 4GB of RAM supported),
however, Windows allocates a nice sized chunk to I/O and other
stuff...

If you want to recognize more than about 3.5GB, you need to run a
64-bit OS (I am running 64-bit Vista with no problems (except the
silly CIsco VPN client doesn't work)...




Jonathan

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Michael Thompson
<mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just meant as a platform to install the VMWare on.
>
> I have VMServer (free version) running on Server 2008.  I'm running 08
> because I have 4Gb or RAM and XP wasn't acknowledging all my memory (which
> kinda pissed me off a LOT).
>
> My thought is to install Linux as a base OS (less overhead resources
meaning
> more available for my VMWare).  Not to mention, Vista and 2008 don't like
> NVidia chipset MoBo hardware.  They're intel bigots.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:31 PM
> To: Michael Thompson
> Cc: Carter, Bill; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net;
ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free
>
> You don't need to know Linux...
>
> The installation is quite easy... just next a lot (add IPs and
> stuff...) and then after it completes it will tell you to open a web
> browser and then install the infrastructure 3 client.then you can do
> VMWare stuff...
>
> Personally, I think Workstation is more suitable for our needs (I am
> running Workstation 6) and I have CCM 4.1/IPCC a Unity 4 box, a CUCM
> 6.1 box and Unity 7 box, plus an XP VM for stuff...
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Michael Thompson
> <mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bummer, I was hoping that they relaxed that a little so I could get rid
of
>> the Microsoft overhead of my server.
>>
>> Don't know enough about Linux to install on that.  May have to learn
> Ubuntu.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:08 PM
>> To: Michael Thompson
>> Cc: Carter, Bill; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net;
> ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free
>>
>> you need a server from the hardware compatibility list...
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Michael Thompson
>> <mthompson729 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Has  anyone played with installing it on generic hardware though?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My problem with ESX is that I tried to install it on my commercial
NVidia
>>> chipset based MoBo and it bombed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> MT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>
>>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Carter, Bill
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:42 AM
>>> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net; ccie_voice at onlinestudylist.com
>>> Subject: [cisco-voip] FYI: VMware ESXi is now free
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.vmware.com/download/esxi/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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