<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I would have thought VMServer would be better for you? although I've never<br>used it when I read the howto as I understood it wants to partition your
<br>physical drive which is no use to me.</blockquote><div><br>
We have other stuff running on host machine as well - its quite complex so easier to do vmplayer.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> we also use player to run machines within machines - keeps clients away<br>> from special apps/configs, they just run locked down client under player
<br>> and access it via web browser - saves lots of mistakes by users tinkering.<br><br>Yeah, excellent, do they run full screen then?</blockquote><div><br>
yup with X but only 640x480 resolution as we dont need more than that. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> only problem we have with player version is you cant access a host shared<br>
> area of disk - hopefull y this will come soon.<br><br>Actually I've spoken to people about this on both the player and workstation<br>versions, I've got it going under workstation on Windows but nearly all VM<br>guys advise thaton a Linux system not to use it at present because, in their
<br>words "The technology is not there yet" (Their words not mine)</blockquote><div><br>
</div></div>My main machines are Linux host running vmware workstation
with clients running Linux and windoze and shared drive works on them
fine. Just need it under vmplayer.<br>
<br>
ian<br>