[CentOS] VMware Server 1.2

Mon Apr 23 19:10:19 UTC 2007
Walt Reed <wreed at vinq.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:54:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt said:
> Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> > On 4/23/07, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> > >The 2nd hit when you google for "vmware".
> > >
> > >http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
> > >
> > Oh.  (Duh)
> > 
> > Does anyone have a comparison between VMWare Player and VMWare Server,
> 
> I think vmware does.

To a degree... The big different is that vmware player is a client desktop
virtualization product, and Server is, well, a Server side
virtualization tool.. On VMWare's site, they don't compete At All, so
are not compared to each other.
 
> > or does the former replace the latter? 
> 
> No, they are completely different products. The player is there to play
> prebuilt VMs. The Server is there to act as a virtualiziation solution
> for SOHOs or for development.
> 
> > I looked at the sites but saw nothing to clarify this (and may have
> > missed in in my haste...).
> 
> Then don't haste.

Quite!