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HowTo: VMware Server 2 on ReadyNAS 4.2.11
Hi, based on the guides from jdw99 and chirpa (viewtopic.php?p=155733#p155733 and viewtopic.php?f=35&t=26468) I completed a step-by-step guide to get VMware Server up and running on my NAS. This Ho...
There are known issues with VMware Server 2 and the console add-on for Firefox. I found a reference to this on the VMware forums here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1517078#1517078
However I work around this by using the VMware Infrastructure Client to connect to the NAS. Also, the VMware Server webinterface only seems to work halfway stable in IE for me but I'll just hand these issues off to VMware... the free server product doesn't seem to get the regular attention it probably needs.
I wouldn't encourage this kind of configuration for any kind of serious setup anyway. At best this can be a testing environment but I wouldn't even use it for that as there's just no way to put enough RAM into the NAS for any kind of serious workload.
One other thing I noticed is that VMware server has worse performance with 64-bit guests than with 32bit guests (this only works after a CPU upgrade to something that supports VTx). All in all, nice to play around with but not made for anything serious.
Regards,
-Jan
However I work around this by using the VMware Infrastructure Client to connect to the NAS. Also, the VMware Server webinterface only seems to work halfway stable in IE for me but I'll just hand these issues off to VMware... the free server product doesn't seem to get the regular attention it probably needs.
I wouldn't encourage this kind of configuration for any kind of serious setup anyway. At best this can be a testing environment but I wouldn't even use it for that as there's just no way to put enough RAM into the NAS for any kind of serious workload.
One other thing I noticed is that VMware server has worse performance with 64-bit guests than with 32bit guests (this only works after a CPU upgrade to something that supports VTx). All in all, nice to play around with but not made for anything serious.
Regards,
-Jan
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