VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use product for users new to server virtualization technology. VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines, and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization.Latest Changes:
- Full support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems
- Full support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4
- Experimental support for 64-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems
- Experimental support for 64-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems
- Experimental support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems
- Support for all guest operating systems supported by WorkStation 5.5
- Support for all host operating systems supported by VMware Server GSX 3.2
- Support for taking and reverting to snapshots in the background
- Experimental support for two-way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP). This lets you assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine on any host machine that has at least two logical processors
- Support for using and upgrading legacy virtual machines
- Ability to configure virtual hardware devices, including serial and parallel ports, DVD/CD-ROM drives, floppy drives, and sound drivers (Linux only) to be automatically detected
- Support for using the VMware Server Console to connect to and configure VMware GSX Server 3 hosts as well as to run virtual machines on VMware GSX Server 3 hosts
- Support for VirtualCenter version 1.4 to manage virtual machines running on VMware Server
- Support for VMware Virtual Machine Importer version 1.5 to import virtual machines from Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC as well as Symantec LiveState recovery system images
- Support for VMware DiskMount Utility to mount a Microsoft Windows host file system as a separate drive without connecting to the virtual disk from within a virtual machine
- The Programming API (previously called C API)
- The VmCOM API (Windows hosts only)
- The VmPerl API
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