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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want? |
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It depends. Workstation gives you the advantage of having a native |
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application to act as a front-end to the guest OS. Server (at least, |
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the version I installed from Portage a couple of days ago |
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(2.0.2.203138)) doesn't work with that app; the new release forces you |
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to use a web application to interact with it. It's not bad thus far (in |
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my opinion) but if you're used to using something else as to interact |
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with it, it's kind of jarring. Also, the new release of VMware Server |
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assumes that all .iso images and guest OSes go under /var/lib/vmware, |
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while Workstation (I was using 6.5.3.185404) could be configured to put |
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stuff wherever you wanted. Again, not that big a deal. |
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What prompted me to switch back to Server from Workstation is that the |
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version of app-emulation/vmware-modules that Workstation wanted is was |
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v1.0.0.25, which had networking problems (i.e., the VMware pseudo-NICs |
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didn't work more often than they did) with kernels newer than... I want |
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to say v2.6.25 and later. Installing Server pulled in v1.0.0.24-r1, |
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which has been all aces. |
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> 2) Are there any prebuilt XP images that would save me the hassle of |
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> installing Win XP and just allow me to validate with my existing keys? |
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> Is this the purpose of vmware-player? (which doesn't seem to have |
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> fetch restrictions...) |
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I don't know. I was issued one at work when I worked with it. |
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> 3) In some ways the most important question is what are the Open |
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> Source alternatives and how easy are they to set up? |
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VirtualBox is pretty nice but I kept running into problems with guest |
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OSes' traffic egressing unreliably to the LAN. This may not be of |
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concern to you but I found it irritating given what I was doing with it. |
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I haven't used it in about two years, so this may have changed in the |
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interim. |
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