2021-01-22, 11:24:35
Martijn,
Nice.
Yes, those websites do touch on some of the issues that I encountered when building vimarun.
Note that in the latest incarnation of shared VM's vmware actually does try to shut down the VM's as well on host reboot.
Great to see your screen mock-up.
VMware is removing the feature, because it is taking them a lot of resources to maintain.
Besides that it also -kind of- competes with functionality offered via vSphere.
Note that VMware's shared VM feature offers more than starting/stopping automatically.
There's a whole user/group permission system for determining what a remote user can do.
You can connect to a VM remotely, use remote power operations, even connect a remote USB device.
By removing the feature they remove the technical debt that comes along with it, I understand it from their point of view.
From the user POV however it is not as easy to understand and as it is a useful feature I figured to step in and see what I can offer within a reasonable amount of time.
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Wil
Nice.
Yes, those websites do touch on some of the issues that I encountered when building vimarun.
Note that in the latest incarnation of shared VM's vmware actually does try to shut down the VM's as well on host reboot.
Great to see your screen mock-up.
VMware is removing the feature, because it is taking them a lot of resources to maintain.
Besides that it also -kind of- competes with functionality offered via vSphere.
Note that VMware's shared VM feature offers more than starting/stopping automatically.
There's a whole user/group permission system for determining what a remote user can do.
You can connect to a VM remotely, use remote power operations, even connect a remote USB device.
By removing the feature they remove the technical debt that comes along with it, I understand it from their point of view.
From the user POV however it is not as easy to understand and as it is a useful feature I figured to step in and see what I can offer within a reasonable amount of time.
--
Wil