[ale] Private Tomcat 6.0 Server and VMware Server 2.0

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:41 -0500, gene.poole at macys.com wrote:
> I've got this large custom box (running CentOS 5.4) that I'm running
> several applications on (JBoss 5.0, custom Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0, and
> Oracle 11g R2 database). So I decided to install VMware Server 2.0.2
> so I could utilize all of those free cycles. 
> 
> After installing the VMware I noticed that I could no longer access my
> Tomcat, and there was a new Tomcat running under the VMware file
> system. 
> 
> Does anyone know how I can get my Tomcat back and still run VMware? Do
> I need to move my Tomcat to one of my virtual servers? 
>   
> Thanks,
> Gene Poole

Uninstall vmware server and install kvm instead.  It is Linux native,
Free, Open Source, part of the Linux kernel, well understood and
maintained, and with libvirt virt-manager can be managed remotely with
out interfering with your stack.  We just talked about that last night
at ALE Central meeting.  Just my 2c.  HTH




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Damon
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