On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 06:25:36PM -0000, Michael Perry wrote:
> 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?
>
I am not a vmware user (currently, I used to use workstation and a bit
of server), I have moved over to virtualbox, for some of the reasons you
have pointed out above. they have a seamless mode, where it integrates
the guest desktop into the hosts desktop. for me I have linux host
(amd64), on a laptop, I have 4g of memory and I allocate 1.5G to a
windows XP guest, where I talk to the corporate exchange server and use
usb devices etc.
the only draw back is the networking, they currently do not have a
network device that hangs of say eth0, I have to create a tun/tap device
and route it out (with the help of NAT) over eth0 or wlan0
alex
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