running vmware without X on the host

Hermann J. Beckers hj.beckers at onlinehome.de
Sat Oct 27 12:25:10 PDT 2007


Am Samstag 27 Oktober 2007 schrieb Federico Voges:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 10/27/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >>> Anyone here have any experience running VMware-workstation on a Linux
> >>> host that does *NOT* have X installed?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I know that most people think of a workstation as something with
> >>> X, but I'm trying to do without X, and sadly vmware is a GTK app.  I'm
> >>> trying to find a way to spawn a guest OS without X anywhere.
> >>
> >> This would be the domain of VMWare enterprise not workstation yes?
> >
> > Sadly, I think you're right.
>
> VM Ware Server. It's free now (at least for personal use).
>
> Cheers,
> Fed.

Does it have to be VMWare? Otherwise I would suggest VirtualBox:
http://www.innotek.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=48

Yours
hjb



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