Just FYI. I'm replying to my own post after doing some tests of my own.
I have tested VMWare Server 1.0 as a host on both RHEL4 AS and Ubuntu
Dapper Server. VMWare Server can essentially be used as a workstation
but with one lacking feature: cloning. It is possible to still clone a
guest OS in two ways: (1) by taking a snapshot, creating a different dir
and copying the snapshot files, then linking the original vmdk in your
new dir. (2) by duplicating the whole directory of your guest OS (cp -R,
but this takes up a lot of space). So far I have been satisfied with the
performance of VMWare Server for Linux on Ubuntu Dapper Server (no X).
Carlo
Carlo Sogono wrote:
I noticed that VMWare Server 1.0 was released recently and is freely
downloadable. How is this significantly different from the other VMWare
versions? A quick skim through the site gives me nothing more than
"VMWare Server is more suitable for servers" and "VMWare Workstation is
suitable for workstations". I don't see how I can't use VMWare Server to
install desktop OS's... Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.
Carlo
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