running vmware without X on the host

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/27/07, Hermann J. Beckers <hj.beckers at onlinehome.de> wrote:
> 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

Yes, unfortunately, it must be vmware, or i'd be using Xen  :)