Virtual Windows Servers on Linux laptop...

[Nathan Meyers]

Grant M. wrote:
> Hey all,
>     This is a combination Linux/Windows question, so please only flame
> me in half of you emails. Basically, what I am looking to do is to have
> an x86 laptop running some flavor of Linux with 2 or 3 flavors of
> Windows Server OS's running on it (2000, 2k3, 2k3r2). The plan is to use
> these as ActiveDirectory Systems to test our Solaris/Linux/OSX AD
> integrations against. As we begin to roll out more and more of these
> integrations, we are finding that each one is more unique than the last,
> and hence more problematic. What we want the system for is to have a
> baseline to test against that we know works in the lab, so that we can
> more easily determine if it's network, AD, or implementation related.
>     The questions are, has anyone on the list done this sort of thing,
> and will the 2k3 versions run on it? Also, is this the best way to do
> this, or are there better options?
> Any help appreciated,
> Grant M.

Are you talking about multiple boot, or running those Windows systems
under virtual machines hosted by Linux? If the latter, vmware does the
job nicely and supports (AFAIK) every Windows release. Of course, you'll
need a pretty beefy box to run 2 or 3 vmware sessions.

Nathan

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