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Workstation allows you to create snapshots of a setup and then create clones |
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from it so you can make a base system, then do branches off of it as you add |
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to it. For example, you can create a base Gentoo install and snapshot it. |
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Then you can clone it and install some software - say to make a DAW. You |
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can snapshot that and continue adding software to it or clone it. The |
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workstations use differential methods to create the clones so storage space |
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isn't as great as storing an the vm and it's files. |
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Server you can't do snapshots so you create a VM, save it, copy it, then |
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modify it. However, server does allow you to start the VMs as a service and |
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keep them running when you are not logged in - with workstation you have to |
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start them after you login. |
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In short they each do different things and what you use depends on the |
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situation. At work I use workstation so I can do snapshots since I am |
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testing setups and I want to have a base to go back to and start over from. |
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However, I have to start the service each time I login in so others can get |
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to the VMs. For someone who doesn't need snapshotting you can just copy VMs |
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and add to them as long as you have th file space. |
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On Sunday November 12 2006 07:53, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> "Richard Fish" <bigfish@××××××××××.org> writes: |
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> > server: Can create or edit existing configurations. Can leave a |
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> > virtual machine running "in the background" if you close the console |
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> Is there a catch somewhere with `server'. Buy the description it |
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> appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is free (beer). |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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