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leider gibt es immer noch diesen bloeden Snapshot anstatt das wieder wie bei WS3 zu handhaben: bei jeder eingebauten Festplatte kann man separat waehlen - persistent - undoable- nonpersistent

leider ist das GUI noch genauso wie jetzt - d.h. alle Maschinen laufen in einem Fenster statt wie bei WS3

Can't downgrade from GSX 2.5/WS 3 to GSX 3/WS 4
Posted: Mar 14, 2004 12:43 AM
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Hi
I am at the end of a 14days evaluation of GSX 3. I have not managed to run a couple of my VMs built in WS3 in GSX3.
The machines that don't work have several disks that are configured differently.
One example: 2k machine with 6 disks
disk1 > boot disk and pagefile > nonpersistent
disk2 > 2k-system > nonpersistent
disk3 > program files > undoable
disk4 > home of user A > undoable
disk5 > home of user B > undoable
disk6 > downloads > persistent

It looks like GSX 3 (and WS4) are not able to handle the different disk modes. I can have a combined snapshot for the 3 undoable disks but that is no option.

I am a big fan of vmware because it allows to setup a very secure surf-system by setting up different disks in different modes. This option makes a vmware-computer stand miles ahead a standard computer if it comes to security-issues. Now it looks like WS4 and GSX3 don't offer this anymore. Now in WS4 the disk-management plays in the same league as XPs system restore or 2k3s shadow copies.
I have tried every thing that I can think of to work around this problem but I haven't found anything.
Well, I admit that for some users the option to take or revert to snapshot while the system is running may be a big advancement. But I would gladly power down first to have the old options back. By the way - the old way of handling disks was quite intuitive and straightforward. The snapshot-thing is much more complicated as you can see by user-posts in this forum.
Can anyone show me a way to simulate the old disk-management?
Otherwise please bring back the undoable button - which I regard as the most important feature of vmware at all.

Thanks

Ulli Hankeln

For all the users of VMware that want to use VMware for security reasons please release a stripped down version of GSX 2.5 as a Workstation 3.5.
I would like to have the memory-handling from GSX and the option to change nics and other devices on the fly. All remote-control and scripting options of the GSX are not necessary.
Please don't recommend a "downgrade" to Workstation 4 - I already bought this but I cannot use it because of the snapshot-disk-management.

Thanks
Ulli Hankeln

continuum hat geschrieben:Hi
Can't downgrade from GSX 2.5/WS 3 to GSX 3/WS 4

Obwohl ich in dem Forum sehr auffaellig bin - 2t haeufigster Poster - habe ich noch nicht einmal einen Kommentar erhalten. Wenn du vielleicht an der Stelle auch ein bisschen Laerm veranstalten koenntest .... vielleicht hoert man uns dann eher.
Es waere auch ganz hilfreich e-mails an vmware zu schicken und nach WS3 Licencen zu fragen - da die WS4/4.5 leider unbrauchbar ist.