[ale] vmware ESX Server

[James Taylor]

ESX server is a virtual machine manager, which uses a modified Red Hat OS.
You can't install it on an existing OS.
You boot from the CD and it installs the ESX server, just as you had surmised.
-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
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>>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2006 at  2:27 PM, in message
<99E6A67A9DA87041A8020FBC11F480B3015CF03D at EXVS01.dsw.net>, "Jeff Lightner"
<jlightner at water.com> wrote: 
> Haven't played with vmware.  A Windows Admin here is tasked with
> installing this.  What he got (ESX Server) seems to be rpms etc... which
> implies it is a Linux load.  From what I can tell of a document he has I
> believe he needs to boot from CD and it actually loads a base operating
> system (Linux) rather than is something he loads on top of an existing
> installed OS (Linux or Windows).
> 
> Is this correct?   Any pointers?   (Note -  we're not creating a virtual
> machine yet -  just trying to get the server software insalled.)