[OpenAFS] RHEL/OpenAFS as VMware ESXi guest

[Thomas Smith]

On Apr 3, 2011, at 15:18, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Thomas Smith <theitsmith@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm currently running RHEL 5 Xen and am considering switching to VMware
>> ESXi 4.
> 
>> Has anyone on the list used these together and, if so, were any issues
>> were experienced? Since both OpenAFS and VMware Tools insert modules
>> into the kernel, I am concerned that one might break the other.
> 
> We have a bunch of VMware guests and have never had any trouble.  We've
> never tried installing OpenAFS on the ESXi host, though.  (I wasn't sure
> from your question whether you were considering that, or just looking at
> the guests.)

Thanks for the reply Russ.

I am looking at running OpenAFS as a guest, not on the host.