[clue-talk] VMWS Features

[David L. Willson]

Precisely. Differential discs, like snapshots. Only the differences from the reference machine are stored in the linked clone. There's NO reason not to use them when both machines will stay local to each other. The only time they're inconvenient is when you want to move the linked clone away from it's parent.

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----- "Mike Bean" <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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