17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
10:44 a.m.
On 2/17/2010 11:38 AM, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Dunno, it allows access to lots of real devices on the unit, and it's
self contained.
You have to pay for VMWare Workstation. Tbh I
much prefer Sun's VirtualBox
these days.
VMWare Player is free. I've played with it once, it was ok, but too
limited.
VMWare Server is free, and runs much better than
Player. I've used it
for about 2 years for fun, and it worked very nicely for me. Though,
sorry, haven't used it for OS/2.
I didn't have to run it headless, but I did run VMWare Server 1.x over
2.x because the 2.x versions I've tried wanted the console to be
launched inside a web browser, and I wanted it to be standalone.
Everything worked just fine - network, USB, sound, video. No issues
other than the file format was different, so when I wanted to move the
vmware session to my Macbook which has VMWare Fusion, it had to convert
the guest to its own format, which then couldn't be returned back to
VMWare Server. Other than that, it was all peaches.
I'll also put in a good word for VMWare Server. It's awesome being
able
to create, launch, and run an OS over the Internet.
Jim