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Sputnik

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9 Jun 2003, 12:50am

anyone have any suggestions on what distro's work well with VMWare running on a WinXP host machine?

I'm going to mostly use the VM for server duty (i.e. web, mail, file, etc), so gui isn't terribly important.

any suggestions welcome!

also, if you know what NIC module should be used in the VM, let me know, i was have a whole mess of trouble earlier when trying to install debian from a net install image

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Kwitko

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9 Jun 2003, 12:53am

If you're going to do that, you might want to try Cygwin instead of a distro through VMWare.

As for which distro will work, just about any of them.

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BLuKnight

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9 Jun 2003, 2:23pm

VMWare rocks. I've gotten it to work with Mandrake and Red Hat. It should with any distro you want to play with. Conectix is what Microsoft uses for its shows, but it's super slow on my computer.

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Rob

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10 Jun 2003, 11:32pm

I have VMWare on my linux workstation. So far, I havent seen a distro that doesn't work. Debian is something I will keep in mind, but not one listed in my toolchest of resources. I mostly use it for developing new server designs and builds based off redhat packages. We do alot of custom compiles across multiple versions, and VMWare has been amazing. It alows me to design and test new server platforms and packages before ever hitting a live machine. Two thumbs up

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