Savannah W-ITS

This event (today, 11/6/08) is hosted under the same environment previously mentioned (bMighty, 5/22/08.)  A few interface notes:

My browser crashed after about 60 seconds into the first presentation so I tried logging in from another system – not! allowed since I was already ‘logged in.’

It would be nice if at least two logins were permitted, i.e.

1. one to ‘watch’ presentations (i.e. my system with a large monitor) and
2. one to multi-task so

Since the VMware install under Fedora 9 was problematic and since there are other kernel related problems (random seg-faults with Fedora 9) I decided to try VMware under Fedora 8 (2.6.26.5-28.fc8.) The now familiar install process went smoothly. In less than 10 minutes the install was completed, and the VMs created under Vista were installed and ready for use.

It should be noted that VMware Server 2.0 does NOT explicitly list Fedora as a supported OS for VMware Server 2.0; while the install seemed to be ‘normal’, I could not get all of the required processes to run and I could not logon to the web console. I also could not locate any error messages pointing me to a solution.

I first looked at virtualization several years ago – it was beyond, or rather the hardware was beyond my exploration budget so I moved on. Current PCs under ~$1000 are quite capable of running multiple OS instances (especially with new VM-aware CPUs and an adequate amount of RAM and disk space; my 6 GB system can run a primary OS using ~1GB or less of RAM (under Linux) and ~2GB of RAM (under Vista.)