Re: [opensuse] Mounting an vmware virtual disk in Linux. On Tuesday 19 February 2008 23:15:32 Sunny wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 10:31 PM, Jonathan Ervine  wrote:
> > Apologies - I first checked on my test system, running VMware
> > server 2 beta. You'll no doubt be delighted to know that the perl
> > script has been replaced with a vmware-mount binary file there.
>
> What are your observations/comments on beta 2? AFAIC they removed the
> server-console, and replace it with some web UI. How does it perform?

The server-console has been replaced with a web UI which seems pretty 
nice. It does however run on top of tomcat, so there is an added load 
onto the VMware server itself which I'm sure some will see as something 
they don't want. The remote console is now handled by a plugin for both 
Firefox and Internet Explorer. I've not been able to get the plugin to 
install into Firefox on Linux yet. I've tried the various versions that 
shipe with openSUSE 10.3 as well as the betas of 3. The installation 
never seems to take hold though.

I've been able to install the plugin into IE through Crossover on Linux, 
only to see the utilisation of vm-debug (or something named like that) 
shoot up to ~95% CPU and IE and VMware become unresponsive. I was only 
testing on a 1GB of RAM test system, so may not have had enough RAM for 
the host and guest together.

They seem to be putting a bit of distance between VMware Server and 
VMware Workstation with this release, and at the moment it is still 
beta software. However, it does look pretty good, and I do like the 
move to the web UI (so long as the plugins for various browsers end up 
working of course)

Jon
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