Re: Virtualization VMWare ESX and Win2k3 as a Guest OS

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: imageguy <imageguy1206(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Virtualization VMWare ESX and Win2k3 as a Guest OS
Date: 2008-11-21 19:56:20
Message-ID: dcc563d10811211156v67f42972u1e4ebecff5d305e3@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, imageguy <imageguy1206(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for running PG2.9 on win2k3 running
> as a guest on VMware ESX ?

Have you tried to duplicate it w a native install of w2k3?

> Currently the system is shutting down and transactions are terminating
> with the messages indicating there is not available disk space, when
> in fact there is plenty of disk space available.

Are you sure you're measuring the same disk space that vmware hosted
w2k3 is measuring?

> Google tells me "don't do it", but other than adjusting fsync, is
> their any other suggestions.

fsync has no affect on disk space usage really.

> Unfortunately, installing *nix as the host is not an option.

Hmmm. Sounds like a religious statement. Is there an actual reason
for no unix?

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