Hi ! I need some advice regarding the setup of a brand new server (Poweredge 860) that will be virtualized using vmware server. I need recommandations on a distro of choice for my hardware. 1. needs to be an open source distro like debian (not a fee based like RH ent. or Suse) 2. needs to support SMP processor and RAID 1 at boot. 3. Ideally Debian would be great, if anybody could fix my issues with kernel 2.6.19.1 (scsi not found, after reboot...) Ultimatly, this server will host a VM server for ISPConfig (debian based) and a Windows 2003 web edition. So what is your recommandation for the base system ?
Maybe you can try Debian version 4 (Etch). This version will be decrared as "stable"very soon. Ubuntu has also a very good hardware recognition.
Everything is great ! Thanks Hans. I was a bit unsure about passing to a "testing" system for production use but everything seem to run A1. I will start my VMWare Server installation now... Do you know any other solution for running a Windows 2003 virtual server on a linux based server ? Thanks again ! Francis
Some suggestions You can considder to follow this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_vmware_server_howto (It is written for Sarge, but Probably it will not be very different for Etch. If you do not need Windows 2003 as an OS, you also can have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_openvz
Still needing advice. Thanks for your time Hans, I'm in the start of the VMWare tutorial by Falko. I stumble at : E: Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.6.18-3-686 I was going to look for it on the CD, it does not seem to be available online... (I had the same issue on my first try...) Any hints ? Thanks Francis
Found something - kernel-headers on etch It seems like from version 2.6.12 upward, kernel-headers package is now refferred to as linux-headers... I progressing ehehe
Building a VMWare server on etch - xlibs-dev Hi ! I found that xlibs-dev is no longer available on Etch. I'm still looking for an alternative to make the VMware server installation ok. I will try using x-dev and libx11-dev and pray for it to work I will post my results. Francis
Finally - My results - Poweredge 860 - Debian Etch - VMWare server Hi folks, here are my results so far ! Took Hans advice, and used Etch to support my hardware, Dell PE 860 dual core Pentium D. Then followed Falko's guide at : http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_vmware_server_howto But modified these things : 1. At first, replace the kernel-headers by linux-headers in falko's long apt-get sequence, remove also xlibs-dev. 2. Apt-get install psmisc gcc libc6-dev psmisc fixes missing killall command in etch gcc wasn't installed on my etch libc6-dev was needed to correct 'The VMware VmPerl Scripting API was not installed.' 3. Installed the vmware server... 4. Installed the vmware console... Logged in the console ! That's it ! A Cold Beer goes to Hans and Falko Francis
I don't have the intention to start a flame discussion about preferred OS-ses, but I did your setup with Ubuntu 6.10 (Efty Edge) on a PowerEdge 850 and encountered almost zero problems. Using 3Ware hardware raid. But then again Ubuntu 6.10 and Debian Etch are closely related.
Can somebody post his /etc/apt/source.list? Mine is: Code: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1$ # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1$ deb [url]http://ftp.surfnet.nl/os/Linux/distr/debian/[/url] etch main deb-src [url]http://ftp.surfnet.nl/os/Linux/distr/debian/[/url] etch main deb [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] etch/updates main deb-src [url]http://security.debian.org/[/url] etch/updates main and I get the message that the package 'E: Couldn't find package linux-headers-2.6.17-2-amd64' I installed this version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/d...amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Maybe I should us another image?
Looks ok. I guess the linux-headers has been replaced with a newer one. What's the output of Code: apt-cache search linux-headers ?
Hello Falko, Thanks for the reply, but I changed to Ubunto 6.10 for AMD64 and now everything runs smooth. No problem installing VMware
