On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 >> >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware >> ii vmware-workstation 6.5.0-110069 >> VMware Workstation >> ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.2-1 >> X.Org X server -- VMware display driver >> > > Is workstation worth $189 when there are free alternatives? > > That's a good question. I downloaded the latest workstation update since I already have the 6.x release of VMware Workstation. VMware Workstation has the so-called Unity feature which lets guest windows run on the host system without seeing the entire guest OS desktop. Is that worth the price of admission? Secondly, there is a redone installation process if you download the tarball where it does the install within some kind of gui'ey window. But for me, and the reason I took it off; is that Unity really requires a heftier piece of hardware than what I have. I have Thinkpad T43s running Ubuntu and Debian TEsting with 1 and 1.5gb of memory. The performance hit after updating was pretty significant. You can run VMware Player that comes with Workstation 6.5 in "unity mode" as well. But everything slows way down.
One other thing which I just noticed in any VM session which perhaps never did work is that I can never get RPC over HTTPs for Outlook 2007 to work on any VM session on Server, Workstation, etc. I'm still puzzling that one. With the same setup on a native Windows Vista system, I can connect to our EXchange 2007 server with no problems. Anybody know why this may be happening? The big answer is that Workstation is a nice free upgrade Imo. Its not really worth the price of admission if you have "lesser hardware" and want Unity. If you want to pay for a nice installer it may be a nice upgrade path :) What are the other things that people feel are reasonable features that they upgraded to 6.5 or bought 6.5 for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
