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matt-oC+CK0giAiYdmIl+iVs3AywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
matt-oC+CK0giAiYdmIl+iVs3AywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 17 17:31:24 UTC 2007
Ha ha, yes I suppose you can ask me questions, though I can't
guarantee I'll have the answers - I support a different product,
though I do have some training on Workstation and Server.
Incidentally, as far as I'm aware, Fedora isn't supported under VMWare
Server or Workstation - the rule of thumb is, if there's no corporate
support available for a distro, it probably won't get on the official
supported list. I'd recommend cruising the VMware forums though -
some interesting results come out of there.
The free app is VMWare Server; it's not really lesser or
feature-limited, it's just a different type of app. For example,
Workstation's snapshot system allows you to have a lot more branching,
but you can't run Workstation as a service (i.e. auto-boot VMs when
your host reboots). Server, on the other hand, is exactly that - a
server. So the feature set is more oriented towards people who want
to run a few servers from a single piece of hardware, but don't want
to go whole-hog and get the enterprise server (ESX).
As for the connectivity software, the only thing that I'm aware of
that gets installed in the guest O/S is drivers; you can install the
VMware Tools (regardless of whether you're using VMware Workstation or
Server), but it's really more of an optimization package than a
feature-adding type of thing. Both apps will also allow you to choose
folders on your Host O/S to share to your Guest O/S.
Quoting Sy Ali <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
> On 8/17/07, Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> You can always use the guest OS to share the folders on the "network"
>> and mount them on your host Linux system. Then the guest OS will use
>> its networking support to deal with locking open files on the guest
>> partition and other dumb stuff.
>
> I played with that.. but DOS networking is a bit of a hassle. =)
>
>
>> I assume by connectivity software, you mean that package in VMWare
>> workstation (which is not free), which lets you share directories and
>> stuff?
>
> Yes, that's it.
>
> I think there's a lesser or feature-limited free version isn't there?
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