Re: CentOS 5.5 in VMware Wkstn 7.1.3

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 12:40 -0600, Michael T Granito Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Tighe <workape@gmail.com> wrote:
>         Doc,
>          Are you allowing the autogrowth for partitions or are you
>         hand creating your virtual disks and adding them a part of the
>         installation?  I had an issues with the Fedora 14 autoinstall
>         such that I ended up going back by hand and moving a ton of
>         things around.
>         
>         Tighe
>         On Feb 5, 2011, at 0:49, "Robert G. (Doc) Savage"
>         <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
>         
>         > Has anyone here logged any recent installation time with
>         CentOS 5.5 under VMware/W? After three troubled attempts I
>         discovered that by default it's allocating far more disk space
>         to /home than to / -- so much so that I can't install
>         OpenOffice, Java, or anything else requiring a significant
>         amount of space.
>         >
>         > --Doc
> 
> Is there a reason why your constrained to VmWare Workstation?
> Virtualbox might be an easier approach considering that the latest
> version (4.02) has quite a number of features that workstation has for
> free....

Michael,

Actually, VirtualBox was a candidate. I rejected it two reasons. First,
it's an Oracle (formerly Sun) product. Call that a subjective reason.
Second, VirtualBox has no Player counterpart. That's an important part
of the security plan: build the client using VMware Workstation ($$),
then clone and distribute it with VMware Player (free). Workstation's
ability to defeat security lockdowns disqualifies it for distribution in
this situation.

Of course, all of this is completely off topic with respect to my
partitioning inquiry.

--Doc




-
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@silug.org with
"unsubscribe silug-discuss" in the body.