[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

[Nate Duehr]

Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> VMWare has recognized that basic virtualization has become a 
> commodity...that's why they now offer both the VMWare Player (pretty 
> much the full Workstation product, minus the ability to create new VMs, 
> but there are third party solutions to do this) and VMWare Server (which 
> previously was their low-end server solution; the name escapes me at the 
> moment) for free.

Do you have any links for the 3rd party solutions to making new VM's?

The VMWare Server is called exactly that... VMWare Server Beta.  It is 
their old VMWare GSX product in the previous terminology.  I got an 
e-mail from them today saying the free Beta version I downloaded (well, 
I got a license key for it from them but haven't installed it yet), will 
"expire" on March 17th because they're releasing an upgrade already.

VMWare Workstation on Linux paired up with any of the VNC servers for X 
-- especially those based off of TightVNC with better compression -- 
makes for an interesting "log into it from anywhere and run any OS" 
networked machine.  I can (with some slowness and pain... GRIN...) VPN 
into the location the linux machine is located at, fire up a highly 
compressed VNC session over a slow link to that location to get the 
Linux desktop and do anything in Linux I want, and then fire up VMWare 
in X to launch any number of OS images.  It's nifty.

Nate