[CentOS] VMWare

Thu Jul 20 21:11:52 UTC 2006
Shawn K. O'Shea <shawn at ll.mit.edu>

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

Here's some discussion from VMWare forums back in February: 
http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=347924

-Shawn

Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 
> Mbytes RAM.
> first
> what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server?
>
> Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done?
> thanks,
> Guillermo Garron
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