Markus Hennecke schrieb: > Guido Tschakert wrote: >> the question is: do you use the vmware-tools from server 2.0 and if >> you do so, how did you manage it? > > No, we are running server 1.0.8 for our OpenBSD vmware installations. We > have some laptops with our Windows client software that needs fast > access to a database on an OpenBSD server. All setup for evaluation of > the whole packet. So we need the ability to gracefully shutdown the vm > if the laptop is powered down. The vm must start when the laptop is > started. It is a setup for users with low skills on computers (medical > personel mostly), so the ability to start and shut down a vm is not > something I can expect. > > OpenBSD 4.4 or newer will run happily with the vmware server 2.0, but no > automatic shutdown is a real show stopper. > > Kind regards > Markus >
Hello Markus, as I wrote earlier, you can use VmServer 2.0 with the old tools. Shutdown works well. I have the feeling that 2.0 is faster then 1.0 (except the management interface which can be very annoying), but I have no measurements ;-) guido
