[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup
ยท [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a virtual machine running in the background if you close the console Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Not that I can tell. Buy the description it appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is free (beer). Yep. It's a bit limited, though. Check out http://www.vmware.com/. Alexander Skwar -- Fry: Hey, why are those kids following you? Do you have candy stuck to your ass? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a virtual machine running in the background if you close the console Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Buy the description it appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is free (beer). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup
Workstation allows you to create snapshots of a setup and then create clones from it so you can make a base system, then do branches off of it as you add to it. For example, you can create a base Gentoo install and snapshot it. Then you can clone it and install some software - say to make a DAW. You can snapshot that and continue adding software to it or clone it. The workstations use differential methods to create the clones so storage space isn't as great as storing an the vm and it's files. Server you can't do snapshots so you create a VM, save it, copy it, then modify it. However, server does allow you to start the VMs as a service and keep them running when you are not logged in - with workstation you have to start them after you login. In short they each do different things and what you use depends on the situation. At work I use workstation so I can do snapshots since I am testing setups and I want to have a base to go back to and start over from. However, I have to start the service each time I login in so others can get to the VMs. For someone who doesn't need snapshotting you can just copy VMs and add to them as long as you have th file space. On Sunday November 12 2006 07:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a virtual machine running in the background if you close the console Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Buy the description it appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is free (beer). -- Brett I. Holcomb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup
Try VMware Server. It's free now. 2006/11/11, Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to run (once a month) Windows (98 or 2000) :-( I guess that vmware can do the job. In windows I need internet access with IE and I must be able to print some webpages to a printserver (gentoo+cups). What to use? Vmware server, workstation or player? The descriptions are not clear about the differences. I'm running Linux 2.6.17.13 (vanilla-sources) on i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz with 768 Mb and only stable stuff. Thanks in advance! Hans. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
