http://www.osnews.com/story/18276/VMware_Server_Console_Introduction_to_Virtualisation Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:11:24 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?255987 http://www.osnews.com/thread?255987 I wish they'd release a version of VMware Server console for OS X. While the separate PC is nice to offload all the virtualization heavy lifting to the old PC, the console on my Mac would be great. I still don't know why people pick VMware player over server, they're both free and you seem to get so much more with server. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?255996 http://www.osnews.com/thread?255996 Been doing this very thing for ages now. I can't fault VMware's products.

And I agree with bsharitt, we need a VMware server product on OS X. I can't be doing with that POS Parallels being the only option with regards OS X Server. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jcardoso) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256028 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256028 There is a VMWare product for OS X, it's called VMWare Fusion. It's in RC1 right now, but you can preorder it for 39.99, and the msrp is 79.99. You can download the RC from VMWare's website. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256049 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256049 I still don't know why people pick VMware player over server

Probably because they get confused by the name VMware server. Unlike player, it doesn't sound like something Joe User wants. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bogomipz) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256051 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256051 Yes , but it's in fact a vmware workstation with login feature. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256117 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256117 "There is a VMWare product for OS X, it's called VMWare Fusion."

I asked for a server product, not the Mac OS X version of VMware Workstation. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jcardoso) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256236 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256236 Server doesn't support sound does it? Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slight) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256237 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256237 VMWare Server 1.0.3 for Intel x86 supports sound on the host machine but does not redirect the sound via the VNC/SSL interface when the console is running on a remote machine. There is an interesting feature where a CD/DVD drive can be either on the remote guest machine or on the host, hopefully they will expand this idea to cover floppy drives, printers, USB devices, sound, etc.. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cushioncritter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256242 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256242 "I still don't know why people pick VMware player over server, they're both free and you seem to get so much more with server."

The server product was developed long after the player product and they it is a much more powerful product. Many large customers want free licensing per seat, but still want a paid support contract option, which server offers and player does not.

Accidentally closing the server monitor leaves all the guest VM's running. The server can also be configured to shut down the guest gracefully when the host is shut down.

I've never tried it, but you should be able to run VMWare server on a machine that does not even have X-Windows installed (using remote monitor login over port 902, for example). This is definitely not possible with workstation or player. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cushioncritter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256267 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256267 "I still don't know why people pick VMware player over server, they're both free and you seem to get so much more with server."

I'll give one very good reason that I have run into:

VMWare Player (and workstation) seems to have better video/input performance than VMWare Server. I have tested both side-by-side with various guest OSes, and I've found that Player (and Workstation) seem much smoother to use.

VMWare Server seems to use a slower protocol to transfer video/input information back and forth with the client.

Maybe this is better now in the newer versions - but when Server was first offered freely available, my observations were such. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (umccullough) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?256807 http://www.osnews.com/thread?256807 "I've never tried it, but you should be able to run VMWare server on a machine that does not even have X-Windows installed (using remote monitor login over port 902, for example)."

This work really excellent on my very minimal CentOS 4.2 server without X for a Windows Server 2003 and a Debian Etch Guest. Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Biker) Comments