Hi out there,

as you all know RHEL/CentOS 6 is out and those interested in server virtualization certainly have already heard about VMWare Server. VMWare Server is build to sit on top of a host operating system like for example Linux and makes it possible to run virtual machines in a normal os. VMWare also has ESXi but this a stand-alone host os where only vms can be run and specific hardware is needed.

Well, as mentioned before, CentOS 6 is out and i tried to install VMWare server on this version but had no luck with it. The last known server version is 2.0.2 and was last updated in 2009. Apparently, to some infos on different pages, it has reached its end-of-life in june or july 2011 and because vmware seems to concentrate on the ESXi or vSphere platform, i had to look for an alternative to run virtual machines inside my linux host os. Maybe some of you already heard about XEN or KVM. KVM is now officially supported by Red Hat in their latest linux version and it's quite easy to set it up and get the virtual machines running.

For all of you interested in building a KVM server or still need or want virtualization on top of a host os, i found a good tutorial how to install KVM on RHEL/CentOS 6. The tutorial can be found here. Have fun with it 😉

Cheers