Best Unix Distro for vSphere?

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Just want to play with Unix flavoured OS's such as BSD etc.

Which ones work really well as virtual machines on vSphere ? BSD / Slackware ? Other ?
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  • forkvoidforkvoid Member Posts: 317
    All of them. ESX works in such a way that the guest OS has no idea that it's virtualized, so it doesn't care. I haven't ran into a single issue yet. I have plenty of Debian and CentOS installs.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    forkvoid wrote: »
    All of them. ESX works in such a way that the guest OS has no idea that it's virtualized, so it doesn't care. I haven't ran into a single issue yet. I have plenty of Debian and CentOS installs.

    Debian / CentOS are Linux distros and not REALLY Unix ones .. I know that there is TECHNICALLY no issue - but a lot of people seem to have issues with BSD for example but I rather want other people opinnions ...

    So yea - talking about Unix ones (Solaris, BSD or other)
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  • forkvoidforkvoid Member Posts: 317
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Debian / CentOS are Linux distros and not REALLY Unix ones .. I know that there is TECHNICALLY no issue - but a lot of people seem to have issues with BSD for example but I rather want other people opinnions ...

    So yea - talking about Unix ones (Solaris, BSD or other)

    Sorry, I misread, since Slackware is kind of borderline. Linux, but underpinnings are very BSD-like. After a quick search, I do see that the BSDs aren't officially supported, but many people have no trouble running them. I'll leave this to those who are actually running BSD, then. My apologies. :)
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    forkvoid wrote: »
    Sorry, I misread, since Slackware is kind of borderline. Linux, but underpinnings are very BSD. After a quick search, I do see that the BSDs aren't officially supported, but many people have no trouble running them. I'll leave this to those who are actually running BSD, then. My apologies. :)

    Just read myself that Slackware is considered Linux *oops* ...

    I read that a lot comes down to the virtual machine tools ... Mmmm... more research :)
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  • demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819 ■■■■■□□□□□
    open bsd
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  • brocbroc Member Posts: 167
    I installed and configured various releases of OpenBSD and FreeBSD on ESXi without a problem in lab and production environment with full functionality. You can install the VMWare tools easily on FreeBSD, it is a bit more complicated with OpenBSD but it is still possible (with 4.6 sure, I actually haven't tried with 4.7 yet).
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  • demonfurbiedemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819 ■■■■■□□□□□
    i hear 4.7 really makes a diff

    free and open bsd are usually the best bets unless you want linux then suse/redhat work well but to me they have a little extra bloat with the gui and all that
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  • MentholMooseMentholMoose Member Posts: 1,525 ■■■■■■■■□□
    demonfurbie wrote: »
    free and open bsd are usually the best bets unless you want linux then suse/redhat work well but to me they have a little extra bloat with the gui and all that
    Don't install a GUI. It's not required to do so. For Linux installs I typically do a minimal install and go from there, only adding the bare minimum of required software.
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