We thought it would be a brilliant idea if you could run a fully blown VI3 environment within Workstation 6.
The possibilities for those in the industry doing consultancy, pre-sales or many of us who just want to do a bit of training in our own environment (with valid VMware licensing, of course) are huge.
At http://xtravirt.com we found a few bits and pieces posted but not a lot of definitive material so one of our team, Paul Davey has written a fully tested whitepaper on how to install ESX3 on Workstation 6 to share with everyone - download here: http://www.xtravirt.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=75&func=select&id=3
So far we have got 3 ESX3 servers plus VirtualCenter2 all running from a laptop - all boot within around 90 seconds. We've tested VMotion successfully. The CPU on your hardware really needs to be a newer type, eg: Intel with VT onboard and presumably the AMD equivalent (AMD-V) although we haven't tested an AMD machine.
Hopefully it works as well for you as it has for us - enjoy.
Any thoughts/feedback welcomed.
Cheers
Gavin
The possibilities for those in the industry doing consultancy, pre-sales or many of us who just want to do a bit of training in our own environment (with valid VMware licensing, of course) are huge.
At http://xtravirt.com we found a few bits and pieces posted but not a lot of definitive material so one of our team, Paul Davey has written a fully tested whitepaper on how to install ESX3 on Workstation 6 to share with everyone - download here: http://www.xtravirt.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=75&func=select&id=3
So far we have got 3 ESX3 servers plus VirtualCenter2 all running from a laptop - all boot within around 90 seconds. We've tested VMotion successfully. The CPU on your hardware really needs to be a newer type, eg: Intel with VT onboard and presumably the AMD equivalent (AMD-V) although we haven't tested an AMD machine.
Hopefully it works as well for you as it has for us - enjoy.
Any thoughts/feedback welcomed.
Cheers
Gavin
