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Re: 1.7 VM tips
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 09:58:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.7 VM tips
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On May 8 19:36, Warren Young wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> Now I read that VMware Server is free.
>
> True. We rely heavily on it here. Most of our VMs are various Linux
> flavors, but we do have a Windows box or two in there as well.
All my Windows boxes are virtual, running in VMware Server under Linux
and I'm quite happy with it.
> It has a really neat feature in that you can run the server on a different
> box than the client, but see the VM's display just as if it were local.
> This avoids the need for VNC, X, or RDP. Linux being Linux, you only need
> this while setting up the VM, before its networking setup is complete. For
> Windows, you might find yourself using it for everything.
I'm rather using the (XP and later) built-in terminal service and
rdesktop to connect. Stuff like copy/paste from the Linux desktop to
the VM and vice versa works better with rdesktop.
Corinna