VMware Server 1.0

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What's New in Version 1.0

VMware Server 1.0 is a free virtualization product for Microsoft Windows and Linux servers that enables you to provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines.
VMware Server 1.0 includes: Support for 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems

* Full support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems.
* Full support for 32-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems.
* Full support for 32-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems.
* Full support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems.
* Experimental support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4.
* Experimental support for 64-bit Ubuntu 6.x as host and guest operating systems.
* Experimental support for 64-bit Sun Solaris 10.x as guest operating systems.
* Experimental support for 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD 6.0 as guest operating systems.
* Experimental support for SUSE Linux 10.1 as host and guest operating systems.
* Support for all guest operating systems supported by WorkStation 5.5.
* Support for all host operating systems supported by VMware Server GSX 3.2.

New Key Features

* Support for taking and reverting to snapshots in the background.
* Experimental support for two-way Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (Virtual SMP). This lets you assign two virtual processors to a virtual machine on any host machine that has at least two logical processors.
* Support for using and upgrading legacy virtual machines.
* Ability to configure virtual hardware devices, including serial and parallel ports, DVD/CD-ROM drives, floppy drives, and sound drivers (Linux only) to be automatically detected.

Other VMware Products Supported by VMware Server

* Support for using the VMware Server Console to connect to and configure VMware GSX Server 3 hosts as well as to run virtual machines on VMware GSX Server 3 hosts.
* Support for VirtualCenter version 1.4 to manage virtual machines running on VMware Server.
* Support for VMware Virtual Machine Importer version 1.5 to import virtual machines from Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC as well as Symantec LiveState recovery system images.
* Support for VMware DiskMount Utility to mount a Microsoft Windows host file system as a separate drive without connecting to the virtual disk from within a virtual machine

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