On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:45 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
I'm not quite clear on the difference between VM Player and VM Server. If I run on a 'real' Linux box can both allow me to have virtual Linux and Win2k machines running? If they can both do this what is the actual difference? What is "creating a new VM" if it's not setting up a Win2k or Linux virtual machine?
VM Player can only boot an existing VMware system image (by default VMware creates a virtual filesystem in an image file) It can't create a new blank virtual machine into which you can install a system.
Also (from memory I don't use it as I have a few VM Workstation licenses) you can't create new virtual devices and add them to an existing machine with VM Player.
So it's fine to use to run a virtual machine you have built with one of the other products. I think it may also be lacking some of the more clever snapshot/non persistent disk/VM Team options of Workstation and Server