[clue-talk] Fwd: Cyber Monday 3 Day Sale - Get Up to 50% Off

[Mike Bean]

Linked clones run from a baseline.  For example,  have VM A. Clone it,
make linked clone B.  Linked clone B isn't a full VM by itself, it runs
off of A.  Because it's not a full clone, it doesn't take as much
diskspace.  I can't prove it, but I suspect it's the workstation
equivalent of ESX's snapshots, it's a record of the changes made to VM
A, not a complete VM in and of itself.  Remove VM A, and you can't run
linked clone B, but remove linked clone B and you can still run VM A.

(Personally, I prefer to use full clones, but the space savings just
isn't that important to me.)

Bean

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 21:34 -0700, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 06:58 -0700, David L. Willson wrote:
> > Cyber Monday is over, but I never answered Maxwell's question, and I
> > meant to, and I'm clearing my Inbox out a bit, so...
> > 
> > Here is a ~very~ brief list of VMWS's outstanding features:
> > 
> >     * non-sequential snapshots (tree)
> >     * linked clones
> >     * movies
> >     * remote access to VMs over vnc
> >     * virtual switches and VM teams
> >     * record and replay (everything, all actions)
> > 
> > http://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/
> > http://vmware.com/go/buyworkstation
> > 
> > $189 for a new license
> > $99 for full-version upgrades 
> 
> When you have time can you explain those more in detail?  I promise I'll
> pay you back with more detail about KVM and XEN in the future.  The
> above sounds interesting but I don't know what 'movies' and 'linked
> clones' mean or why I should be missing them!
> 
> :)
> 
>