Re: Download RHEL4

General Schvantzkopf wrote:
Yes, KVM does seem to be in favor right now. We'll see how it plays out:
Xen does have some nice features (including significant performance
benefits over VMWare and a much better management API). Xen, and KVM
according to reports, allow you to run an industrial server on a
contemporary OS with contemporary software, allowing you to run
contemporary tools on the server as well as in the guest domains. VMware
Server, which does have significant performance benefits over VMware
Workstation, absolutely does not: it's reliant on a proprietary 2.4
Linux kernel, it's running on RHEL 3, and putting monitoring tools on
the server or integrating backup tools there is.... problematic.

I'm running VMware Server on CentOS5.2 and on Fedora 9, there is no requirement for RHEL 3. VMware Workstation appears to be nearly identical to VMware Server, as far as I can tell the only difference is that Workstation can map a host directory as a client partition and Server can't.

Are you confusing Server with ESX? Server runs on top of a host OS, ESX is the host. I haven't used ESX so I can't comment on it except to say that it's supposedly derived from some version of RHEL but I have no idea about how much of RHEL is still in it.


Yes, I was confusing it with ESX. Thank your for the correction. ESX is RHEL 3, with much of its guts ripped out and a closed source kernel and tools emplanted on it.
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