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Sunday, March 12, 2006

VMware Server Beta build 22009 - What will it do for me?

The upgrade was very easy, and took about 5 minutes (including uninstalling the old build, and restarting the host).
The only changes I can notice, is that a few things have been moved around in the VM Settings screens, a few new
menu items have been added (e.g. a new "Shut down guest", "Suspend after running script", "Resume and run script", "Power On and run script" and "Restart Guest" options in the VM Power menu (so mostly duplicates of pre-existing commands in that menu), and a new "Connected Users" command in the VM menu, that displays a list of usernames and IP addresses connected to VMware Server). Server's Preferences window has been reworked slightly, with some options removed, and a few tweaks, but it's mostly cosmetic. A few new options for supported guest operating systems have been added, including Sun Java Desktop, Novell Desktop Linux 9 for the Linux options, and the addition of NetWare 4 support.
In this build, the list of supported operating systems has been removed from the help files, and in addition, there's no new version of VMware Tools.
I've also noticed a slight speed increase whilst booting Windows in a VM, and strangely enough, it seems a bit more responsive than the previous build, whilst performing general tasks.

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