[ale] VM ?

[jrickman at gmail.com (Jonathan Rickman)]

On 3/11/07, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
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> Does anyone here use VMServer in a headless environment?  I'm looking at
> installing it in our data center to give me some virtual machines as
> needed.  Since the server is in the rack I will have no keyboard, video,
> or mouse on this system.  Everything must be started remotely via ssh or
> via the host's serial console.  I do plan on installing a mutil-port
> serial board and allow each VM to have that as its ttyS0 so I can have
> those as serial consoles as well.  I have a serial console server in the
> rack so this is extremely easy to do.


I use VMWare Server headless without issue on Windows and Linux. The Remote
Console combined with SSH or RDP works well. I also run ESX headless, only
connecting a console when I need to boot the boxes into Linux to install
updates about once a year.

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Jonathan
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