[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 20:01 -0800, Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> Where I work we use VMWare heavily.  We are using the ESX product
> with multiple virtual servers on a single host.  It is working really
> well for us.  I have also used the VMWare workstation before and it
> is really good.  You can now get VMWare server (the baby product to
> ESX server) for free. 

Has anyone used the free server product?

> Microsoft shipping Virtual Server with Vista.  

</shudders>

> We are running on top of RedHat enterprise for the ESX server.  I
> have run machines on top of  SuSE 10 with the player that I
> originally built with the server version on a Windows server. 

Isn't it *AWESOME* to just move entire servers around with scp? :)

> For developers you would want to get the workstation version (has
> some features that will be good for them) but for other people that
> will be testing things in general the VMWare server will probably
> work fine.  The player works really good too.

The only drawback we've seen is that player does not come with VMware
tools,  so you need to send you VM to someone with workstation in order
to have vmtools installed - using Windows in a VM without vmtools is
horrible (mouse is jerky, display is slow, etc...)
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