Kevin wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:22, Patrick Fleming wrote:
>
>>VMWare also runs into a limit of 1g. Add all your running VMWare
>>instances and all the VM machine instances and you run into that wall
>>pretty fast. I'm running several instances of Win 2k using the K12LTSP
>>packages and have had the pleasure of meeting the 1g limit.
>
>
> Yuck. Does that mean all the RAM carved out for guest OS's must add up
> to 1GB or less?
>
> I was planning to put 3GB in the Linux box and reserve 2GB for VMware.
> I was thinking I could run up to four guest OS's with 512MB each or
> eight guest OS's with 256MB each. Sounds like I need to cut those
> numbers in half to keep VMware under 1GB total.
>
> Am I understanding this correctly?
>
> ...Kevin
Using the LTSP- everything is on the server- model that is exactly
right. *If* you are not planning on running these all at the same time
you can get away with more memory per virtual machine. The max VMWare
will allow is 1g for all concurrently running virtual machines.
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_specs.html
The server version is much beefier and is more designed for full
workstations (vs the terminal server workstation) with a price tag to match:
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/gsx_specs.html
At any rate, some day I will need to 'upgrade' in order to add more
machines at which point it's probably going to involve some form of a
Windows Terminal Services box hanging next to the LTSP box. rdesktop is
rumored to work with this setup. Of course price/performance will again
have to be weighed before that step for me.
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