[Wolves] VMPlayer Etc

[Peter Cannon]

On Monday 21 August 2006 10:56, Ian Harper wrote:

> only 5 !!

I'm fortunate enough to own VMWare Workstation5 for both Windows and Linux 
obviously you can do a heck of a lot more with that than 'Player' but @ £80+ 
its not viable for standard users.

Perhaps I should have been a bit clearer and said have two copy's of the 
virtual appliance, one stored somewhere and the other to work on. Then if you 
have to delete the 'working on one' you can copy the stored one and start 
again. Copy--->paste---->VMPlayer---->start 3mins?

> it does help to have lots of RAM with it - I use full blown vmware and have
> a copy of subset of the office network - currenty 12 machines - it does
> crawl a bit when all running on a 1G RAM machine.

Yep it helps if the 'Host'  has 1GB and the vm was created with at least 512MB 
although I'm running Debian now on a W2K 512MB machine and its perfectly 
fine.

I would have thought VMServer would be better for you? although I've never 
used it when I read the howto as I understood it wants to partition your 
physical drive which is no use to me.

> we also use player to run machines within machines - keeps clients away
> from special apps/configs, they just run locked down client under player
> and access it via web browser - saves lots of mistakes by users tinkering.

Yeah, excellent, do they run full screen then?

> only problem we have with player version is you cant access a host shared
> area of disk - hopefull y this will come soon.

Actually I've spoken to people about this on both the player and workstation 
versions, I've got it going under workstation on Windows but nearly all VM 
guys advise thaton a Linux system not to use it at present because, in their 
words "The technology is not there yet" (Their words not mine)

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