RedHat

[kleinma]

I am trying to get RedHat linux setup on Virtual Server 2005, however Microsoft states that the versions of RedHat that are compatible are

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 (update 6)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

• Red Hat Linux 7.3

• Red Hat Linux 9.0

Now I think the "enterprise" ones are the pay versions of redhat, but how about the 7.3 and 9.0 versions. In my searches around the web, it appears that even version 9 is rather old??

I would try a newer build, or even fedora, but the Virtual Machines additions drivers are only stated to work with the given versions above. The additions drivers boost the guest OS performance in a virtual machine, and are really NEEDED to make using the guest OS a decent experience.

So I found this archive link. Does this look like it would be what I need?
ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/

Also what is the newest version of RedHat that is available? I know fedora core is version 6, but fedora and redhat are technically 2 different things right?

[wossname]

RH9 is pretty old now. And as far as I'm aware it doesn't support things like SATA discs so I wouldn't get used to it if I were you.

Give FC6 a try anyway. If it doesn't work then thats MS's fault.

RHEL and FC are different. RHEL is summarised here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

FC here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Core

RHEL is basically corporate-based and commercial, FC is community-based open-source.

[TomGibbons]

The current version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is 5.0, Red Hat 9 is about 4 years old, Red Hat and Fedora Project merged in 2003.

Fedora Core 6 should work fine. It's technically different, but not by much. The biggest difference between FC and RHEL is that you pay Red Hat for support for the latter.

[kleinma]

Well I havent found anything to say that anyone got the VMAdditions working on Fedora.

SATA drives arent an issue because its all virtual anyway..

I don't know enough about linux to be able to really thoroughly troubleshoot.

I will try it though, because its all virtual machines, so I can easily blow out and retry things with the installations.

Maybe I will do both RedHat 9 and Fedora 6 and see.

I am pretty sure both will run fine as a virtual machine. I am more worried about the VM additions drivers working, as using the VM without them installed is rather sluggish.

[wossname]

I only mention SATA because it highlights how out of date RH9 is.

[litlewiki]

This link (http://vpc.visualwin.com/) from a Google search is interesting.

[kleinma]

This link (http://vpc.visualwin.com/) from a Google search is interesting.
My problem is less with which ones technically will install, and more with which ones will allow VMWare Additions to work.

I don't know if you have played with virtual machines or not, but they are not fun to work in without having those extra drivers installed.

[wossname]

At this rate you'll spend more time battling with the VM than Linux. :(

[kleinma]

It is nice to use virtual machines because it takes the limit of off the amount of hardware I need to run.

I might try VMWare server for linux installs instead of Virtual Server, and only use VS for Windows installs, and the few linux distros that are supported.