For a long time I've used VMWare Workstation at home, even though I'd bought an x64 machine just for vms.  Lame, right?  C'est la vie.  I'd originally though I should install a hypervisor OS (ESXi, Xen) instead of the VistaBusiness I did install, but then got bored, put on VBx64 and was done with it.  Yesterday, I figured I'd look again at VMWare Server 2.01 (ESXi's free now, too, go figure).

Didn't take too long to uninstall VMWare workstation (via the console with the -c option) and install VMWare Server and now I have remote access to my newly headless x64 VMWare server.  Looks and works great!  The only thing I miss is being able to edit the virtual networks in the interface (which was done in Workstation's) - I have to login (remote desktop) into the box to do that.  Ah, tradeoffs.  I get much better info on the running vms themselves - cpu and ram usages.

I upgraded my Fedora Core 9 image to 10 (yes, I know 11's out in 12 days) and stuck irssi, screen, fah, and openldap on it and for a paltry 256mb (only using 128mb), I have a little unix testbed that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

I know summer's here already, but this is my spring cleaning, al Gore.