RHEL5 virtualization and/or vs VMware

[Matthew Gillen]

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I notice RHEL5 Desktop has an option for a built-in virtualization
> feature and MultiOS.
> 
> Does this mean RH has its own way to support multi OSes with no need for
> VMWare, or does it augment VMWare?

It uses Xen, which provides essentially the same functionality as VMware.  So
the answer to your first questions is that VMware is not needed.

This link
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki//Tools/Xen

has some information, I'm sure Redhat has EL5-specific pages and documentation
somewhere.

Matt

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