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running vmware in an openvz container? [message #45057]

Wed, 25 January 2012 01:18

joeblow
Messages: 2
Registered: January 2012

Junior Member

New to openvz, still low on the learning curve, so apologies if this is a stupid question.

I'm running proxmox VE 2.0 beta. I'll be using RHEL5 or some variant in openvz containers. Can vmware-workstation be installed and run in such a container ?

Thanks!

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Re: running vmware in an openvz container? [message #45199 is a reply to message #45057]

Thu, 09 February 2012 20:44

VDSExtreme
Messages: 11
Registered: February 2012
Location: The Netherlands

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No, that is not possible. VMWare need to compile some kernel modules. OpenVZ gives not the permission to his containers to change hardware kernel modules.

Kind regards,

VDS Extreme - Technical Department

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Re: running vmware in an openvz container? [message #45482 is a reply to message #45057]

Mon, 12 March 2012 20:03

divB
Messages: 79
Registered: April 2009

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This is not completely correct.

As far as I remember I managed to run virtualbox inside a container.

As long the software accesses all its functions through device files, these nodes can be imported into a container. The most critical stuff (according to my experience) is everything network-related (e.g. bridging)

Regards
divB

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