[Samba] Problems running samba in vmware

[Douglas VanLeuven]

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Natxo Asenjo wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Adam Zimmer <adam at ariussoftware.com> wrote:
>>> I have used samba for nearly 9 years with no problems and we have about
>>>  20 users. In the past we have had a dedicated samba server. We have
>>>  recently virtualized this server to a quad core Q6600 using vmware
>>>  virtual server 1.0.4 on a 64 bit host running ubuntu 7.10.
>> bad idea. Vmware server is not meant for production servers. Don't try
>> to save a buck and buy a copy of esx. It will save you all this
>> trouble and time is money.
> 
>> If you really want to go along the free road, get yourself xen, linux
>> runs perfectly with the opensource 'free as in free beer' xensource.
>> Vmware server is a great testing tool, not a production one.
> 
> Why is that?
> 
ESX is the OS.  Vmware server runs under an OS.  All kinds of
ramifications to this from allocating specific ethernet cards to
specific virtual machines instead of bridging to better cpu and memory
management.

But this is getting pretty off topic for samba.

Regards, Doug