Where Are The Wise Men?

I’ve had the pleasure of playing a little with VMWare Server late last week as well as most of this week.  I’ve only used one virtual machine (Windows 2003) but I have to say that I’m impressed – much nicer than VirtualPC.  And it’s free!!

Setting up a virtual machine is easy but that’s not the coolest part.  The coolest part is that you can start the VM in the console on one machine and then shut down the console.  But the virtual machine is still running!!  I can use another VMWare Server console on the same machine or a different one and get on the same instance.  This is especially useful when you are using the VM as a server — you don’t need to look at it all the time.  Just unattach it (my word) and then re-attach it when you need to.

This is a highly-recommended piece of technology.  Did I mention that it’s free?

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