aldimeneira Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 VMware whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce next week that it will begin giving away one of its key products for free. The company sells three core products, VMware Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server, but competition is on the horizon in a market VMware once had to itself. On Monday, however, the company is expected to announce it will give away GSX for free, sources familiar with the plan said. GSX runs on a "host" Windows or Linux operating system and then lets "guest" operating systems run atop it in compartments called virtual machines. The higher-end ESX product, in contrast, needs no host and runs below the operating system layer. source Could they make one for Mac OS X by the end of the year? VMware free, should it happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcslayer Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 Yes, the free VMWare server was public in vmware.com in 06/02/06. But they seem too busy. I can't reg or login to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiebeest Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 What I can't seem to make out of their homepage is what could I use this server for? Is that any better than my current VMware 5.5....I'm lost someone please enlight me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Johnson Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 What I can't seem to make out of their homepage is what could I use this server for? Is that any better than my current VMware 5.5....I'm lost someone please enlight me... If it is anything like Virtual PC Server than several instances of VMWare machines run on a single physical machine but people can remote into them. You could also host several websites in isolated logical servers using something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Personal experience: VMWare Server does NOT install OS X x86. Reasons currently unknown. What I do know is that the vm server service eats up resources like da shiit and runs vms twice as slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 The difference between the server and the normal version is the number of processor support. the normal version can support up to dual core and HT. the server version will support multi-processors. That might be a problem, and correct me if i'm wrong. MS has a clause that you will need a different license in order to legaly run windows on multi-processors machines or vitrual machines running with multi-processors. I beleave vmware is talking to MS about that right now. So maybe this is a trial run to see if companies and corp. heads will bite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfgbd Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I dunno about you, but the new free VMWare Sever Beta works with OSx86 just fine. Even sound works, albeit slowly. I still needed to use Daemon Tools to mount the CD image, though. Perhaps that was your problem. It also works fine on Windows XP Home Edition and Professional/Media Center Edition. I have yet to try VMWare Workstation. Did you say it uses fewer resources? Perhaps I will be better off with Workstation, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I installed OSx86 with Workstation. It worked fine. Hey, does anybody know if they will be making VMWare for Mac anytime soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltazar Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 I dunno about you, but the new free VMWare Sever Beta works with OSx86 just fine. Even sound works, albeit slowly. I still needed to use Daemon Tools to mount the CD image, though. Perhaps that was your problem. It also works fine on Windows XP Home Edition and Professional/Media Center Edition. I have yet to try VMWare Workstation. Did you say it uses fewer resources? Perhaps I will be better off with Workstation, then. Have you tried out workstation yet? Would be nice to hear a comparison between the two. It would also be very intresting to hear if someone got Osx86 running in ESX Server and see how it performes as it doese'nt need a host OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baltazar Posted April 20, 2006 Share Posted April 20, 2006 Okej, I'm gonna answer a few of those questions myself Just got back from trying out the now free Wmware Server Beta. And just as for tfgbd OS X worked just fine for me too. Compared to Workstation 5.5 it was a bit slower and to native - really slow. And I read somewhere that ESX supposed to be lika 5-10% faster than GSX so I ain't even gonna try that out. What I also tried was Parallels. I know OS X dosen't boot in it but I have read how well Win XP runs under the OS X version so I wanted to see how the Windows version handled a supported OS. I fired up the SLAX Linux Livecd I had lying around and I must say I'm really impressed! I'ts really fast, close to native. Later on I load it in Vmware Server Beta to get a comparison. And it's mutch, mutch slower. It's a bit faster than OS X but not at all that mutch. So if I should have some sort of conclusion in this it would be that when/if a SSE2 supportet version of Parallels for Windows comes out, I think it could be really, really interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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