Release: VMware Server 1.0
Posted by Alessandro Perilli
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006
| 3 Comments
The long awaited enterprise-class free product from VMware finally is shipping: Server 1.0 (build 28343).
This first release (something we could call formerly GSX Server 4.0) includes:
Support
- Full support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4
- Experimental support for 64-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
- Experimental support for 64-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems
- Support for all guest operating systems supported by WorkStation 5.5
- Support for all host operating systems supported by VMware Server GSX 3.2
- Support for taking and reverting to snapshots in the background
- Experimental support for two-way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP). This lets you assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine on any host machine that has at least two logical processors
- Support for using and upgrading legacy virtual machines
- Ability to configure virtual hardware devices, including serial and parallel ports, DVD/CD-ROM drives, floppy drives, and sound drivers (Linux only) to be automatically detected
- Support for using the VMware Server Console to connect to and configure VMware GSX Server 3 hosts as well as to run virtual machines on VMware GSX Server 3 hosts.
- Support for VirtualCenter version 1.4 to manage virtual machines running on VMware Server.
- Support for VMware Virtual Machine Importer version 1.5 to import virtual machines from Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC as well as Symantec LiveState recovery system images.
- Support for VMware DiskMount Utility to mount a Microsoft Windows host file system as a separate drive without connecting to the virtual disk from within a virtual machine.
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3 Comments
Anonymous
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:55:00 PM
WHEN is someone going to post a useful comparison of the various "free" products, such as which one is faster, which one is easier to learn, easier to use, which ones require more or less hardware, memory, etc. In short, what is best for REAL PEOPLE using these products?? Thank you, Tom
alessandro
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:59:00 PM
SOON.
I was looking for a performance comparison between VMWare player and VMWare Server. Because I couldn't find one I decided to install VMWare Server anyway and try it out for myself, which turned out to be a mistake... Firstly VMWare Tools did not install correctly and after some hacking I managed to get a VM running albeit very slowly. The mouse was unresponsive, each key was followed by a considerable delay and the screen wouldn't draw itself in a timely to be usuable. It as if the product still had debug code there was a bin-debug folder too. Looks like VMWare hasn't updated all of their servers with the final product or they haven't finished yet.
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