RedHat

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/pu...at/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?

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.

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.

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.

I only mention SATA because it highlights how out of date RH9 is.

This link from a Google search is interesting.

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Originally Posted by litlewiki

This link from a Google search is interesting.

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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.

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

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.