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VMware Workstation 6.0 - The next must-have plugin?

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At 8:57 PM on Feb 11, 2007, Daniel Spiewak Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Personally, I don't know where I'd be without my trusty VMware Ubuntu image to facilitate testing and to just give me a breath of fresh air after working in a stagnant, Windows environment for hours on end. However, being the incredibly cheap individual that I am, I have so far refused to spring for the full VMware Workstation package. After all, VMware Player is sufficient to use the images and it's Open Source. Why should I pay for something when I can get it for free? Granted, workstation allows for the creation of *new* images, but there are hacks to get around this and create new images manually (just Google around for installing Linux on VMware). Just the convenience of a nice UI for image creation didn't seem sufficient motivation to shell out cash.

However, it seems that image creation is no longer the prime motivation for purchasing a full copy of workstation. Lowell Heddings, the Dzone sheriff, pointed me to a link he posted on dzone.com which holds special interest for Eclipse developers. Apparently, VMware Workstation 6.0 will also include an Eclipse plugin which will allow developers to debug processes running within a virtual machine!

Just imagine the possibilities... You could do your primary development on Linux, while easily testing on every Windows platform from 3.1 to Vista. You could perform complicated client/server app testing all on the same machine, without burdening yourself down with 20 Mysql and Apache instances.

All in all, this is a really really cool new feature and one which has probably sold me (so to speak) on purchasing VMware 6.0 Workstation. Any neat ideas on how to put this to good use?
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1. At 1:49 AM on Feb 12, 2007, Gunnar Wagenknecht Javalobby Regulars wrote:

Re: VMware Workstation 6.0 - The next must-have plugin?

If it's just a UI for image creation that you are missing you should switch to VMware Server. It's completely free as well and includes the UI for the creation and modification of images.
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2. At 9:10 AM on Feb 12, 2007, Daniel Spiewak Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Re: VMware Workstation 6.0 - The next must-have plugin?

> If it's just a UI for image creation that you are
> missing you should switch to VMware Server. It's
> completely free as well and includes the UI for the
> creation and modification of images.

Yeah, I've thought about doing that, but really I don't miss the UI. :-) Creating the images by hand isn't all that hard and of course, I don't do it very often.

Workstation also has some really nice features I didn't mention, like shared folders and so on. It's just now, with the remote debug attach, that it's "nice features" might just be enough to get me to pay the money.
Daniel Spiewak
ActiveObjects: an Easier Java ORM; Fuse: Resource Injection for Java
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4. At 6:09 AM on Feb 13, 2007, Thomas Darimont Javalobby Newcomers wrote:

Re: VMware Workstation 6.0 - The next must-have plugin?

Hello,

>Just imagine the possibilities... You could do your primary >development on Linux, while easily testing on every Windows >platform from 3.1 to Vista. You could perform complicated >client/server app testing all on the same machine, without >burdening yourself down with 20 Mysql and Apache instances.

.. isn't this (or at least a similar) feature already there for quite a long time? I mean for instance, you can Remote Debug a Java Application in a VMWare Instance from the Eclipse Debugger of the Host System.

Best regards,
Thomas
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5. At 12:57 AM on Feb 15, 2007, Daniel Spiewak Javalobby Junkies wrote:

Re: VMware Workstation 6.0 - The next must-have plugin?

> Hello,
>
> >Just imagine the possibilities... You could do
> your primary >development on Linux, while easily
> testing on every Windows >platform from 3.1 to
> Vista. You could perform complicated
> >client/server app testing all on the same
> machine, without >burdening yourself down with 20
> Mysql and Apache instances.
>
> .. isn't this (or at least a similar) feature already
> there for quite a long time? I mean for instance, you
> can Remote Debug a Java Application in a VMWare
> Instance from the Eclipse Debugger of the Host
> System.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas

Forgive me for seeming a little ignorant, but I'm not exactly sure how. Could you provide a quick overview?
Daniel Spiewak
ActiveObjects: an Easier Java ORM; Fuse: Resource Injection for Java
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