Dumping vmware server on Fedora

Since moving up to Fedora 12 (and now 13) on my main dev server I have been struggling for months with trying to get vmware server working on it with no joy for one reason or another. Today I think I have finally cracked it!

Having also given VirtualBox a go unsuccessfully I now find that Fedora comes with everything I need out of the box in the form of the libvirtd package. This page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Quick_Start#Networking_Support tells you pretty much every you need to know, with http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/... giving you extra details on bridged networking which I needed.

Converting VMWare images was simple using virt-convert and then virt-image to import them and barring a few crashes whilst I was fiddling with the config while the VM was running it all went pretty smoothly and I now have my main VM purring away. It's easiest to get things up and running using the GUI but as I run my servers headless for the most part I now need to get used to using virsh for command line admin.

All in all though I am very pleased to be able to cross something else off my long term annoyance list.