Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup

["Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

Workstation allows you to create snapshots of a setup and then create clones 
from it so you can make a base system, then do branches off of it as you add 
to it.  For example, you can create a base Gentoo install and snapshot it. 
Then you can clone it and install some software - say to make a  DAW.  You 
can snapshot that and continue adding software to it or clone it.  The 
workstations use differential methods to create the clones so storage space 
isn't as great as storing an the vm and it's files.

Server you can't do snapshots so you create a VM, save it, copy it, then 
modify it.  However, server does allow you to start the VMs as a service and 
keep them running when you are  not logged in - with workstation you have to 
start them after you login.

In short they each do different things and what you use depends on the 
situation.  At work I use workstation so I can do snapshots since I am 
testing setups and I want to have a base to go back to and start over from.  
However, I have to start the service each time I login in so others can get 
to the VMs.   For someone who doesn't need snapshotting you can just copy VMs 
and add to them as long as you have th file space.


On Sunday November 12 2006 07:53, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org> writes:
> > server: Can create or edit existing configurations.  Can leave a
> > virtual machine running "in the background" if you close the console
>
> Is there a catch somewhere with `server'.  Buy the description it
> appears to do everthing the `workstation' does, yet is free (beer).

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Brett I. Holcomb
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