Hi All,

I'm looking at running VMWare on my RedHat linux box. I expect to have a number of guests on the linux host that provide some testing functionality. What I would like to do is kick off these VMWare sessions after I reboot to ensure the machines startup. Another benefit of this is that I could be logged out of X while the machines are chugging away.

Any ideas on how I could do this?

Lets use the trivial example of a RedHat host with a Fedora guest running an ftp server. I want the RedHat machine to power-on and immediately open VMWare to start the Fedora guest. Notice that no user has logged in at this point. How do I do it?

Firstly, this may depend on which implementation of VMWare you are running...

VM ESX Server allows, when in the Remote Console to configure any or all machines to come back up on boot.

I believe GSX (IDE) Server does contain this functionality as well. I'm not sure about workstation...

BTW - that iptables rule in your sig cracks me up...

*awww* yes. Forgot about GSX server. I had considered ESX but that's not doable. Hmm... GSX... that may fit the bill. I'll see if that'll meet my needs.

Thanks.

I have not seen this feature in Workstation because it is dependent on the user and X Window System (X11).

Be careful how much memory that you give to each virtual machine. It can make the host OS crawl. I think a gigabyte of RAM will be a good start.