We were starting to widely deploy VMWare Server 1, whose GUI based interface we liked and thought was adequate. When we tried to use VMWare Server 2 under Windows 2003, we were just shocked. I have rarely seen a product go so wrong.
First, the user interface of the new product was awful. It simply didn't respond as quickly and didn't feel as functional.
Second, the version 2 product took days to get working at all. We had all kinds of firewall issues to debug. That's not a good sign when a product doesn't just work out of the box.
For that reason we skipped the version 2 product entirely and won't use it.
My questions are:
1) Does anyone know if these will offer a GUI alternative for their VMWare Server 3 product? When is that due out?
2) Does VMWare Workstation 7 at least still offer a GUI administrative console?
In VMWare Workstation 7, is there any way to configure a virtual machine to automatically start up when the computer reboots? We could use it as a substitute for VMWare Server if it had that one feature?
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Will