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barfoon
Asked: 2009-08-22 06:25:11 +0800 CST

Can I run a Fedora VM on top of XenServer / ESXi? What's the closest alternative?

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I am planning on moving to Citrix XenServer to host a couple of VM's and am looking to find out if Fedora is in fact supported. The site says it can run Red Hat, but aren't this and Fedora nearly the same?

Can I run this OS in a virtual machine on this hypervisor? What alternative OS's are there to do this?

Thank you,

EDIT: I just looked and Fedora isnt listed for ESXi either, just Red Hat Linux. Will it run on here either?

Apparently from the Citrix forums someone has built Fedora on XenServer 4.1, so I guess there would be no reason it wouldn't work on 5.5?

virtualization linux operating-system xenserver vmware-esxi

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    It will work, the worst case scenario is that you have to hand-crank the installation of the vm-tools - shouldn't be a problem at all.

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  2. Fedora 10 on top of a VMWare (not esx, the free version) worked OK for more than a year. The host OS was Slackware.

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