[CentOS] VMWare

Max H. btmanmeh at verizon.net
Thu Jul 20 21:16:26 UTC 2006


Shawn K. O'Shea wrote:
> VMWare Player cannot create VMs. It is used to run existing VMs (either 
> open source based VMs available for download from VMWare's Virtual 
> Appliances directory ( http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/ 
> ) or created with another version of VMWare).
> 
> VMWare server does allow the creation of VMs. If I understand some of 
> the things I'm reading (and my use here at work of server and esx), 
> major differences between server and it's payware cousin VMWare 
> workstation are:
> - Server runs as a Windows service/Linux daemon
> - Server is client/server based. You use a console application to access 
> your VM. (something akin to VNC)
> - Features Workstation has that Server does not: snapshotting of VMs, 
> full screen mode, shared folders

Shawn,

You can actually create one snapshot in Server, but you don't get the 
option of having the snapshot manager like say in Workstation. Other 
than that, the web client, and the console connection are really cool on 
the network like you mention. Server actually does indeed support full 
screen mode. Basically, you're losing the snapshot manager and gaining 
the console/web client.

Max




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