You certainly have a laptop that is installed with. And if your laptop has only for example 8Gb of RAM (like which is getting oldish) you’re certainly concerned about RAM resources.

I use my laptop as a mobile test lab. I like to run two VMware ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and a domain controller with perhaps Starwind ISCSI target as well in the same VM (to get some shared storage). So any other VM you add to this will consume additional resources, so careful selection can be done in order to minimize CPU, Memory and storage resources. Usually you seek for a VM which is: • Very small in size • Can boot fast • Take as less resources as possible. Usually you need this kind of VM when running nested ESXi hosts in VMware Workstation or on ESXi, or also when used as a test VM in a bare metal ESXi deployments.

It’s really something that is a must-have in each VMware lab. ********************************************************************* Shop for vSphere licenses at VMware Store: • (lifetime license) • (lifetime license) • (lifetime license) ********************************************************************* Top Three Lightweight Linux VMs for VMware Lab In no particular order here is the list. Damn Small Linux Live CD which can be installed as usual. Check and download Damn Small Linux, as an ISO which you can install:.

• Install tce package for git tce-load -iw git • Clone git repository with building instructions and tools git clone && cd vmware-tools-on-tiny-core-linux • Prepare the tiny core machine for building the tools./prepare-tcl-to-build.sh This script will install additional tce packages and get the open-vm-tools tarball from github. How to use pendrives and other removable devices with Tiny Core? Installing Core to USB pendrives is easily accomplished with Core's tc-install extension. Core2usb is a Windows native program that make it easy to install Core from downloaded iso file to bootable pendrive. GNU/Linux Compatibility: To make your Tiny Core system more fully.

You can follow a how to install it to the hard drive (you have to use IDE otherwise the hard disk is not detected). Update: You can download the compressed ZIP archive which has already the “VM” version (for example this: dsl-4.4.10-vmx.zip) 2. Tiny Core Linux Check VMware Communities where you can download directly an OVA file (simpler to deploy ) The VM boots very fast and goes right into desktop. Autocad draw polyline vbal4f. No need any login/password. Here is a screenshot. Pretty rudimentary, but apparently the VM consumes just 4Mhz CPU cycles, and has 48Mb of RAM. Can’t really get any better than that.

TTY Linux TTY Linux is a very small Linux distribution based on a 2.6 kernel. For installation, it requires only 12 MB of disk space and 32 MB of RAM. It has no GUI, but does have a text-mode web browser and ssh server. PDF documentation here. The installation on to the hard drive does not work out of the box as on modern Linux distributions, so some Linux skills are necessary to properly install the distro. TTY Linux is also used by my friend Alastair Cook over at Labguides.com where together with Nick Marshall they using it in their automated kit for deploying nested ESXi hypervisors, vCenter server and shared storage. The whole free solution called Autolab can be downloaded (free registration is required).