[PLUG] VMware Workstation 8

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

From the Planet Gnome aggregator:
http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2011/09/14/a-proud-moment-vmware-workstation-8

Jeff, you will like this:
[...]
You can also connect to ESXi/vSphere. As a developer, this is something 
I take advantage of nearly every day. I have an ESXi box running in my 
back room with several VMs for testing, and a couple for in-home 
servers. By running on ESXi, I minimize the overhead of a standard 
operating system, and gain a bunch of management capabilities, but 
previously I had to use vSphere Client to connect to it. Now I can just 
talk to it with Workstation.

Hear that, Linux admins? You don’t need vSphere Client running on 
Windows to connect to your ESXi/vSphere box anymore. That’s a big deal. 
(Unless you need to do some more advanced management tasks — we’re more 
about using the VMs, and light customization).
[...]

More docs: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ws_pubs.html

They've also merged the remote access features (VNC-based IIRC) from 
VMware Server 1.x into this, so you can do all kinda of remote stuff. 
***AND*** you don't need X on the host anymore.  Very cool.  I wonder 
how that works for licensing though?  I want to run the host on a 
non-GUI server, then remote in from elsewhere.  What's the remote 
client?  Do I need 2 Workstation licenses?  Hmmm, reading between the 
line of "Using Remote Connections and Sharing Virtual Machines" from 
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/ws80-using.pdf it sounds like it's split into 
at least "vmware-workstation-server" and a client.  I wonder if they 
will let you install a client on both Linux and Windows?  That'd be 
REALLY handy for some $WORK stuff.


I've used VMware Workstation 3 (a bit), 5 & 7 (quite a lot) on an 
Ubuntu/Xubuntu host and that has worked very well for me.

Later,
JP
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