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Key Features in VMware Server
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.
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.
VMware APIs included with VMware Server
The Programming API (previously called C API).
The VmCOM API (Windows hosts only).
The VmPerl API.
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