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Recommendations for a Host OS?
Renegade:
Dunno... Just doesn't work. That's what I was trying before, but if it can't see anything, there's not much I can do. :(
Nothing shows up.
Mind you, I'm running it inside of VMware... Need to check it out first...
So, yeah, it is looking that difficult from where I'm standing. :'(
40hz:
If you already have VMWare...why?
There is some mention of running Proxmox inside another VE. But they also say it's experimental, needs a host that supports "nesting", and that KVM will most likely not work. so unless you're running a sever from the command line that way, it's generally a no-go doing Prox inside another VE.
And please don't tell me you're trying to do all this on a laptop. ;D
f0dder:
If you already have VMWare...why?-40hz (March 08, 2013, 12:33 PM)
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For testing purposes, I reckon. Dunno if it's smart to test a hypervisor on anything but bare metal, though :P (could be enough to test the install & setup procedure, but definitely not for testing actually running stuff on it).
Renegade:
VMware is for testing. I just want to "feel things out" first before running down the bare metal road, which is much more involved.
And no - this isn't on a laptop.
4wd:
I don't know* if you know but the Microserver is capable of running ESXi 5.1 with 2 or 3 VMs, (given a bit more RAM) - quite a few reports of people doing it.
If you want to have a play with it, you could remove your existing HDDs and plug in a temp storage HDD, plug a flash drive into the internal USB connector and install ESXi on it.
ESXi 5.1 for it can be downloaded from here.
You could conceivably run your FreeNAS within a VM on it as well as another 1 or 2 VMs. Won't be suitable for playing games but it might be for some low powered or long time frame work.
Just an idea.
* Does this fulfill the "Tell me something you don't know..." ?
:P
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