[Mageia-discuss] mageia under vmware ESXi

[Thomas Backlund]

David Walser skrev 1.11.2012 17:04:
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> TPTB have decided to upgrade our ageing server (still running mandrake) with a new system based on vmware ESXi.
>> I thought I'd install mageia in some of the virtual machines to migrate current services, but I see that it isn't certified as a guest OS
> under vmware ESXi.
>> I actually don't care, but the vendor has suggested that we stick to one of the supported distributions.
>> I don't think that it's because mageia is a community distribution, because I see that debian, fedora and opensuse are "certified" (as are
> the commercial ones like RHEL, SLES, CentOS, etc.).
>> Maybe nobody got in touch with vmware to have mageia listed as a "certified" distribution?
>
> Not sure what it matters having it "certified."  I run several Mageia server VMs in ESXi at work and they work great.
>

And usually certification means €€€ ...


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Thomas