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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org