Re: VMWARE on a client

["Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I use VM Workstation because the additional checkpointing is pretty handy
for PC development; there are also some additional hooks into Visual Studio
using VM Workstation that (as far as I am aware) are not available in the
free product, and which allow you to do debugging of applications on the
Virtual Machine - a great development tool.

I also found that I was able to get the IBM System Planning tool to run
reliably in a Virtual Machine - it was pot luck whether it would run on my
normal desktop, sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't.

It's worth getting the free version of VMWare just so you can run Vista
without hosing your existing Windows installation :)

Regards
Evan Harris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2007 6:33 a.m.
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] VMWARE on a client
>
> Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> > As for VMWare Server, it does run on XP, but IIRC, the disk-rollback
> > options are better on workstation. However, I'd start with server
> > because the price is right, and then buy workstation if you need the
> > additional functions.
>
> Walden:
>
> You are correct ... VMWare server only has the ability to do a single
> checkpoint.  Workstation can manage multiple checkpoints.
>
> As long as you don't need complex checkpoint capability, VMWare server is
a
> great product.
>
> For me, the single checkpoint is fine ... I build a virtual machine up to
a
> stable point and checkpoint it.  Then I can install stuff on it, see how
it
> works, and rollback the changes if it's not working right.
>
> david
>
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