[ale] vmware server vs. workstation

[James Taylor]

If you need to access the VM from a remote server, and/or you plan on running multiple VM's, then server is the way to go.

If you plan to run it on you personal workstation or notebook and want to use it as a way to run those occasional pesky Windows apps or for testing, then Workstation is the way to go.

I run both on multiple machines and I haven't noticed any speed differential on the latest versions.
Workstation will give you more virtual device support, but the VMware files are interchangeable between server and W/S.

Also, Workstation costs, Server doesn't.  I've been maintaining a licensed copy of Workstation since sometime in the 2.x versions, so I upgrade every time there's a new release.

-jt


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
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>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at  7:15 PM, in message
<87f94c370709171615g65adb5fbkb0c12ddb5b861cca at mail.gmail.com>, "Greg Freemyer"
<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote: 
> All,
> 
> I installed vmware server under opensuse 10.2 last Friday.  Seems to
> working as designed.  Maybe a little slow, I'm still getting my XP
> guest patched with all the Windows updates, so I can't say for sure.
> 
> Anyway, I just read a year old blog post that was explaining the
> difference, and I'm wondering if I should have installed workstation
> version instead of server?
> 
> FYI: It said at the time that workstation ran a lot faster than
> server.  Still true?
> 
> My needs:
> Run desktop apps that I don't have linux equivalents for.
> Multiple snapshots would be nice so I can install something and revert 
> easily.
> I doubt I keep any primary data in the VM.  I'll SMB mount a data
> drive for all of that.
> 
> Thanks
> Greg