recently described the second beta version of VMWare Server 2 product, while Daylight saw the first Release Candidate. This time we have to reckon with downloading almost 550MB package, but VMWare has saved us the next registration (just enter the e-mail address you used when downloading Beta 2).
What do we get in return?
- Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) - a solution to the performance of your system state (snapshot) without shutting down the virtual machine. This makes it possible to avoid situations in which the exemption resulted in inconsistencies, and also easier to manage (for example, we can keep state before installing a new program).
- Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) - interface that provides convenient communication between virtual machines and virtual systems and inter-host system. This mechanism is known from the beta environment VMWare Workstation 6.5.
- Include SCSI devices such as tape drives to virtual systems.
- Adding new virtual disks to a running machine in the likeness of a mechanism for hot-swap controllers
- connectivity not only the resources of the host computer on which you installed VMWare Server is, but also the merging of computers in client mode
Some of the new functionalities require not only update the application binaries, but also to force the update plug-in browsers, or raise the version of virtual machine (to 7). This last step will, however, that our machine is not currently compatible with the other VMWare environments.
