Re: Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm looking at probably bringing all the stuff that I can't virtualize
into
a single machine.

Hardware support seems to be a bit of a limitation with the likes of ESXi
and Hyper-V, but I can understand why - they're really an enterprise level
solution where the VMs need to be "fluid" and not tied to a
particular
platform thus allowing them to be shifted around easily.

Even support for serial / parallel port pass-through is missing :-( That's
a
real challenge for me at the moment as I have around a dozen serial / usb
devices that I need.


Martyn




----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:22 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience


I'd love to go down this route with ESXi but I'm stuck with Vista 64bit and
VMWare Server because I have a firewire satellite card for PVR.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@...>
wrote:
>
> That's a really timely submission, cheers Mark & Paul!
>
> Yesterday I ordered a quad-core server and 8GB of memory to go in it
for a
> shade over £300 to be the basis for VMWare ESXi, now begins the
process of
> consolidating and vitalizing what I can!!
>
>
> Martyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark McCall" <lists@...>
> To: "Ukha_D@... Ukha_D@..." <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 8:35 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
>
>
> > As energy prices concentrate all our minds on saving electricity,
those
> > of
> > use with multiple home servers are looking for ways to
consolidate into
> > fewer machines running 24/7.  Now that VMWare ESXi is free,
there's
> > never
> > been a better time to virtualise your servers.  Is not all good
news
> > though,
> > with access to certain hardware from virtual machines is still
> > troublesome
> > or impossible.  Read on for one home automators experience moving
his
> > home
> > to the virtual world......  )Submission by Paul Smith)
> >
> > http://bit.ly/xgtsF
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>




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