yum install vmware-server

Andras Simon szajmi at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 16:18:42 UTC 2007


On 7/19/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
> >
> > But then I never really understood the difference between
> > vmware-server and vmware-workstation.
>
> "Server" separates the machine runtime from the display console.  The
> machine can be running one or more VMs without displaying any of them
> and the console utility can run on the same or a different machine
> (cross platform), connecting only when you need it.  Workstation ties
> the display to the runtime and adds some features that would be most
> useful in development like multiple save/restore snapshots (server
> permits one, player none), cloning VM images from a common ancestor with
> only the changes taking storage space, and controlling groups of virtual
> machines in single operations.

Thanks for cleaning up the picture!

One small further difference seems to be that WS doesn't need any
patches on F7. But perhaps the most recent version of vmware-server
doesn't need any either.

Andras




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