1.7 VM tips

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May  8 19:36, Warren Young wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Now I read that VMware Server is free. 
>
> True.  We rely heavily on it here.  Most of our VMs are various Linux 
> flavors, but we do have a Windows box or two in there as well.

All my Windows boxes are virtual, running in VMware Server under Linux
and I'm quite happy with it.

> It has a really neat feature in that you can run the server on a different 
> box than the client, but see the VM's display just as if it were local.  
> This avoids the need for VNC, X, or RDP.  Linux being Linux, you only need 
> this while setting up the VM, before its networking setup is complete.  For 
> Windows, you might find yourself using it for everything.

I'm rather using the (XP and later) built-in terminal service and
rdesktop to connect.  Stuff like copy/paste from the Linux desktop to
the VM and vice versa works better with rdesktop.


Corinna