Stefan,

I think a related thread was discussed a couple of weeks ago.

In my case, this is not something I'm doing, not running amanda
within the virtual machine. Rather I am running amanda in the
(Solaris) global-zone and using it to backup the non-global zone
data, since its the partent/owner of all of the partitions.

While I haven't tried recovery, I recall from the previous thread
that amanda recovery of data from within the zone was successful.

Pretty sure you can assign zones resources that aren't mounted
as part of the global zone, but I have not done so. Well, in
Solaris, I don't have a working knowledge of VMware.



On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> Greets, amanda-users,
> 
> has anyone successfully tried to use Amanda inside a VM, especially one
> running on VMware ESX Server?
> 
> ESX does bring its own hardened OS and from the infos I got so far it
> isn't possible to just install additional software (I will test that as
> soon my test license is here).
> 
> So the idea of the customer was to run amanda inside a VM, accessing the
> physical tape(loader).
> 
> I am unsure about the overall performance, though.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> 
> Stefan
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