in regards to option (2), you cant have vmware preallocate space
or to allocate on the fly. this means that free space is free
on the host as well as the guest.
im not sure if you can convert between, but i can see the
advantages when cloning if you were to start without preallocation
then after copying (if needed) convert to allocated. this would
benefit copying to other machines even more.
Dean
Carlo Sogono wrote:
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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