[rt-users] Moving RT from sparc to x86 OS on VMWare?

[Rainer Duffner]

Richard Skelton wrote:

> Hi,
> Solaris x86 is great for RT and as you are already using Solaris on 
> sparc this would be the best solution.
> Solaris 10 is also FREE :-)
> Just pick a machine that meets the HCL
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
>


Big deal - he uses VMware ESX-server.
That pretty much has his hardware defined ;-)
The only variables are the amount of virtual RAM and diskspace it gets, 
together with the number of virtual NICs.

As a VMware ESX-customer (usually not under 25k USD, but most probably 
in the 6-figure range, depending on the scale), I'd got straight to 
VMware Inc. and demand that FreeBSD5 starts working on it ASAP.
(It works on GSX, so it shouldn't be that hard to get working)

Both from a RT and from a Solaris-admin perspective, this will probably 
make the most sense.

FreeBSD4.9 *is* certified, but I would only very hesitantly install a 
server with, now that 6.0 has been branched and will be released by the 
end of the year...

GSX has experimental support for both Solaris 10 and full support for 
FreeBSD5 - so you could start with a GSX-vm and later, when VMware Inc. 
gets their act together, move it to the GSX-server.
But as someone else said: with Solaris, you'll have to roll-your-own for 
pretty much any package and perl-module - and I counted (I think) 86 
p5-packages on my FreeBSD5-box after RT was installed...
On RHEL, there's no guarantee that a future update will not break the 
whole thing - unless you also do a roll-your-own install of everything 
that is needed by RT...




cheers,
Rainer