VMware: Windows and Linux?

Arthur · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-11, 12:21

Hello

I've heard that VM successfully compete with all the way to the bios level. So let me know is it possible to run Windows and Linux on the same box at the time by using VM.

jeremyc · #2 (**permalink**) 06-21-11, 11:59

Perhaps it's possible, however, I am not sure about that. Although, Windows and Linux on the same server is not a good idea and even you are planning to use VM on that box; so I think, in near future when any technical difficulty occurs, then it might be difficult for you to resolve it.

Arthur · #3 (**permalink**) 06-21-11, 12:28

Okay, but if I want to resell virtual accounts and I purchased one dedicated server; and the fact is, I've different clients, some of them requires Linux environment and others may want Windows platform so in this case what is the solution?

jeremyc · #4 (**permalink**) 06-21-11, 12:42

In this case, you should have to purchase two servers, Linux dedicated server and Windows dedicated server. Or you can only purchase one Windows dedicated server, because Windows supports most of the Linux applications such as PHP, and MySQL.

Alex2011 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-22-11, 14:28

In order to create VMs on a server for your clients, I would suggest you to opt for at least a Quad Core Dedicated server with 4 GB RAM, as to create VMs it needs a high resourced server. You can choose Windows as the hosting platform as it supports most of the applications supported by Linux.

carl owen · #6 (**permalink**) 06-22-11, 21:21

You can create virtual machines on the server using a virtualization application, however, the virtualization application does not allow you to have a different OS of the virtual machines. Therefore, the OS of the virtual machines will be the same as that of the dedicated server on which the virtual machines are created.

Arthur · #7 (**permalink**) 06-23-11, 14:58

Someone recommended me to check HyperVM or SolusVM with Xen. Also I've heard HyperV, which comes with Microsoft's windows server; is able to run both Linux and Windows virtual machines on the same dedicated node.

jeremyc · #8 (**permalink**) 06-23-11, 15:20

According to official site of Microsoft; HyperV supports Linux distribution as well. But I think it becomes hard to get various Linux distributional up and running in HyperV. While, there lot of supported operating systems, but then you will notice only one supported Linux distribution. Check the below URL for more details:

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Windows Server 2008 R2: Virtualization with Hyper-V: Supported Guest OS

carl owen · #9 (**permalink**) 06-23-11, 21:13

Hyper-V is a hardware virtualization application and hence you may run virtual machines with two different operating systems on the same node using it, however, it only supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and RHEL out of which RHEL is a licensed operating system and most of the users do not prefer SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Moreover, it becomes difficult to manage virtual machines with different operating systems on the same node and no hosting company will offer support for it.

Crish Bronzs · #10 (**permalink**) 06-29-11, 03:01

Linux supports a wide range of software, applications, languages, and databases such as PHP, Perl, PostGre, MySQL, PostgreSQL and many others making it very scalable. On the downside, Linux is not fully compatible with some Microsoft technologies so if you are using Access, ASP, MS SQL, or VB development tools then Windows would be a better bet.

carl owen · #11 (**permalink**) 06-29-11, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Crish Bronzs

On the downside, Linux is not fully compatible with some Microsoft technologies so if you are using Access, ASP, MS SQL, or VB development tools then Windows would be a better bet.

That's the reason it's suggested that customers who need Microsoft based applications should choose a Windows hosting plan or server rather than looking for a Linux hosting plan or server and then trying to find alternatives to run Microsoft based applications on them.