Comments on: Irish Web Technologies Conference – IWTC- 2008 http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/enterpriseweb20/2008/02/27/irish-web-technologies-conference-iwtc-2008/ People, Technology, Business and Innovation Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:01:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul Browne http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/enterpriseweb20/2008/02/27/irish-web-technologies-conference-iwtc-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-202911 Paul Browne Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:54:00 +0000 http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/enterpriseweb20/2008/02/27/irish-web-technologies-conference-iwtc-2008/#comment-202911 Dave, Actually, what would *really* be a killer feature is the ability for Virtual PC to run Amazon Machine images (AMI) that you could copy direct into their hosting ... Apart from that, thanks for the follow up - it's quite possible that this is down my error; I did manage to get previous versions working in VMWare on 2000 and XP. Due to a bug in VMware and Vista, thought I'd look again at alternatives. Happy to go into details, but really I haven't taken the 'STFW' step, so unfair to waste your time (yet!) Working assumption is that the problem is something that Red Hat doesn't provide in Fedora (open version of RHEL) but as the older versions work in VMWare is unlikely that a graphics Driver or something similar is missing. Paul Dave,

Actually, what would *really* be a killer feature is the ability for Virtual PC to run Amazon Machine images (AMI) that you could copy direct into their hosting …

Apart from that, thanks for the follow up – it’s quite possible that this is down my error; I did manage to get previous versions working in VMWare on 2000 and XP. Due to a bug in VMware and Vista, thought I’d look again at alternatives.

Happy to go into details, but really I haven’t taken the ‘STFW’ step, so unfair to waste your time (yet!)

Working assumption is that the problem is something that Red Hat doesn’t provide in Fedora (open version of RHEL) but as the older versions work in VMWare is unlikely that a graphics Driver or something similar is missing.

Paul

]]> By: Dave Northey http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/enterpriseweb20/2008/02/27/irish-web-technologies-conference-iwtc-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-200965 Dave Northey Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:42:41 +0000 http://www.firstpartners.net/blog/enterpriseweb20/2008/02/27/irish-web-technologies-conference-iwtc-2008/#comment-200965 You missed me at the IWTC Paul - I was there yesterday. Re your Linux on Virtual PC question (Virtual PC uses the same VN additions as Virtual Server): Qualified Linux Guest Operating Systems The following Linux operating systems have been tested and are on the list of supported guests for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1: • Enterprise distributions: • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 7) • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (update 8) • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (update 4) • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 • Standard distributions: • Red Hat Linux 9.0 • SuSE Linux 9.3 • SuSE Linux 10.0 • SuSE Linux 10.1 • SuSE Linux 10.2 Dave. You missed me at the IWTC Paul – I was there yesterday.
Re your Linux on Virtual PC question (Virtual PC uses the same VN additions as Virtual Server):

Qualified Linux Guest Operating Systems
The following Linux operating systems have been tested and are on the list of supported guests for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1:

• Enterprise distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 7)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (update 8)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (update 4)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0

• Standard distributions:

• Red Hat Linux 9.0

• SuSE Linux 9.3

• SuSE Linux 10.0

• SuSE Linux 10.1

• SuSE Linux 10.2

Dave.

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