Re: [PLUG] VMware Workstation 8

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

JP, 

Wow,

I had just upgraded Workstation 7 to 8 on my Ubuntu laptop,  and I totally
missed the new Vsphere integration part.    This is fantastic,  no more need
to start up a Windows VM for basic Vsphere operations.

The details are explained a bit further here:
http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-workstation-8-new-features-detailed/

You can directly mount vmdk disks,  export VMs in OVF format.

For developers,  there are lots of features for shared VM's and
creating/managing VM's on ESX directly from Workstation.

Thanks for the info.

Lee

----- Original Message -----
> From: "JP Vossen" <jp@jpsdomain.org>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Sent: Friday, 16 September, 2011 12:32:55 AM
> Subject: [PLUG] VMware Workstation 8
> 
> 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 donât need vSphere Client running on
> Windows to connect to your ESXi/vSphere box anymore. Thatâs a big
> deal.
> (Unless you need to do some more advanced management tasks â weâre
> 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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