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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">VMware Server</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><div class="infobox-caption">The web interface of VMware Server 2.0.0</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="VMware" title="VMware">VMware</a></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Final release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2.0.2 (Build 203138)
/ October 26, 2009<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2009-10-26</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a><br><a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Platform</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="X86_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="X86 architecture">x86</a>-compatible</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Hypervisor" title="Hypervisor">Hypervisor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Freeware" title="Freeware">Freeware</a> (certain underlying components used are <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vmware.com/products/server/">vmware<wbr>.com<wbr>/products<wbr>/server<wbr>/</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>VMware Server</b> (formerly <b>VMware GSX Server</b>) is a discontinued free-of-charge <a href="Hardware_virtualization" title="Hardware virtualization">virtualization</a>-software server suite developed and supplied by <a href="VMware" title="VMware">VMware, Inc</a>.
</p><p>VMware Server has fewer features than <a href="VMware_ESX" class="mw-redirect" title="VMware ESX">VMware ESX</a>, software available for purchase, but can create, edit, and play virtual machines. It uses a <a href="Client%E2%80%93server_model" title="Client–server model">client–server model</a>, allowing remote access to virtual machines, at the cost of some graphical performance (and <a href="3D_acceleration" class="mw-redirect" title="3D acceleration">3D</a> support). It can run virtual machines created by other VMware products and by <a href="Microsoft_Virtual_PC" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Virtual PC">Microsoft Virtual PC</a>.
</p><p>VMware Server can preserve and revert to a single <a href="Snapshot_algorithm" title="Snapshot algorithm">snapshot</a> copy of each separate virtual machine within the VMware Server environment. The software does not have a specific interface for cloning virtual machines, unlike <a href="VMware_Workstation" title="VMware Workstation">VMware Workstation</a>.
</p><p>VMware Server has largely been replaced by the "Shared Virtual Machines" feature, introduced in VMware Workstation 8.0 and onwards.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Naming">Naming</h2></div>
<p>The former name <i>GSX Server</i> allegedly stands for <i>Ground Storm X</i>, an early code name for the project.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versions">Versions</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="VMware_Server_1.0">VMware Server 1.0</h3></div>
<p>VMware released version 1.0 of Server on July 12, 2006, replacing the discontinued VMware GSX Server product-line. VMware Inc continued to develop the VMware Server 1.0.x series, issuing a maintenance release (version 1.0.10) on 26 October 2009.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="VMware_Server_2.0">VMware Server 2.0</h3></div>
<p>VMware Server 2 runs on several server-class host operating systems,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
including different versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008, and mainly enterprise-class Linuxes. The manual explicitly states: "you must use a Windows <i>server</i> operating system". The product also runs on Windows 7 Enterprise Edition.
</p><p>Server 2 uses a web-based user-interface, the "VMware Infrastructure Web Access", instead of a GUI. For web interfaces, VMware Server 2 and VMware vCenter 4 use the <a href="Apache_Tomcat" title="Apache Tomcat">Tomcat</a> 6 web server, while VMware vCenter 2.5 is based on Tomcat 2.5.
</p><p>As part of the product, the VMware Host Agent service (also carried over to VMware Workstation Server until today) allows <a href="Remote_desktop_software" title="Remote desktop software">remote access</a> to VMware Server functionality.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>VMware server 2 supports the Microsoft <a href="Shadow_Copy" title="Shadow Copy">Shadow Copy</a> service. (<a href="Microsoft_Virtual_Server" title="Microsoft Virtual Server">Microsoft Virtual Server</a> 2005 R2 SP1 also supports Shadow Copy.) Virtual machines that support this service can be <a href="Backup" title="Backup">backed up</a> without stopping.
</p><p>VMware Server was discontinued in January 2010; general support ended on June 30, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Virtual_appliance" title="Virtual appliance">Virtual appliance</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_machine" title="Virtual machine">Virtual machine</a></li>
<li><a href="Platform_virtualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Platform virtualization">Platform virtualization</a></li>
<li><a href="X86_virtualization" title="X86 virtualization">x86 virtualization</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_disk_image" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtual disk image">Virtual disk image</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070302190729/http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/server.html">VMware Server End-User License</a></li></ul>
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</style><div id="Virtualization_software371" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Virtualization" title="Virtualization">Virtualization</a> software</div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="Comparison_of_platform_virtualization_software" title="Comparison of platform virtualization software">Comparison of platform virtualization software</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hardware_virtualization" title="Hardware virtualization">Hardware</a><br>(<a href="Hypervisor" title="Hypervisor">hypervisors</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Native</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_Domain_Environment_for_Operating_Systems" title="Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems">Adeos</a></li>
<li><a href="CP/CMS" title="CP/CMS">CP/CMS</a></li>
<li><a href="Hyper-V" title="Hyper-V">Hyper-V</a></li>
<li><a href="Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine" title="Kernel-based Virtual Machine">KVM</a>
<ul><li><a href="OVirt" title="OVirt">oVirt</a></li>
<li>KubeVirt</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Oracle_VM_Server_for_SPARC" title="Oracle VM Server for SPARC">LDoms / Oracle VM Server for SPARC</a></li>
<li><a href="Logical_partition" title="Logical partition">Logical partition</a> (LPAR)</li>
<li><a href="LynxSecure" title="LynxSecure">LynxSecure</a></li>
<li><a href="PikeOS" title="PikeOS">PikeOS</a></li>
<li><a href="Proxmox_Virtual_Environment" title="Proxmox Virtual Environment">Proxmox VE</a></li>
<li><a href="QNX" title="QNX">QNX</a></li>
<li><a href="SIMMON" title="SIMMON">SIMMON</a></li>
<li><a href="VMware_ESXi" title="VMware ESXi">VMware ESXi</a>
<ul><li><a href="VMware_vSphere" title="VMware vSphere">VMware vSphere</a></li>
<li><a href="VCloud_Air" title="VCloud Air">vCloud</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="VMware_Infrastructure" title="VMware Infrastructure">VMware Infrastructure</a></li>
<li><a href="Xen" title="Xen">Xen</a>
<ul><li><a href="XenServer" class="mw-redirect" title="XenServer">XenServer</a></li>
<li><a href="XCP-ng" title="XCP-ng">XCP-ng</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="XtratuM" title="XtratuM">XtratuM</a></li>
<li><a href="Z/VM" title="Z/VM">z/VM</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hosted</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Basilisk_II" title="Basilisk II">Basilisk II</a></li>
<li><a href="Bochs" title="Bochs">Bochs</a></li>
<li><a href="Cooperative_Linux" title="Cooperative Linux">Cooperative Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="DOSBox" title="DOSBox">DOSBox</a></li>
<li><a href="DOSEMU" title="DOSEMU">DOSEMU</a></li>
<li><a href="PCem" class="mw-redirect" title="PCem">PCem</a></li>
<li><a href="86Box" title="86Box">86Box</a></li>
<li><a href="PikeOS" title="PikeOS">PikeOS</a></li>
<li><a href="SheepShaver" title="SheepShaver">SheepShaver</a></li>
<li><a href="SIMH" title="SIMH">SIMH</a></li>
<li><a href="Windows_on_Windows" title="Windows on Windows">Windows on Windows</a>
<ul><li><a href="Virtual_DOS_machine" title="Virtual DOS machine">Virtual DOS machine</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Win4Lin" title="Win4Lin">Win4Lin</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Independent</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Bhyve" title="Bhyve">bhyve</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Virtual_Server" title="Microsoft Virtual Server">Microsoft Virtual Server</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallels_Workstation" title="Parallels Workstation">Parallels Workstation</a> (<a href="Parallels_Workstation_Extreme" title="Parallels Workstation Extreme">Extreme</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac" title="Parallels Desktop for Mac">Parallels Desktop for Mac</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallels_Server_for_Mac" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallels Server for Mac">Parallels Server for Mac</a></li>
<li><a href="PearPC" title="PearPC">PearPC</a></li>
<li><a href="QEMU" title="QEMU">QEMU</a></li>
<li><a href="UTM_(software)" title="UTM (software)">UTM</a></li>
<li><a href="VirtualBox" title="VirtualBox">VirtualBox</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_Iron" title="Virtual Iron">Virtual Iron</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_PC" title="Virtual PC">Virtual PC</a></li>
<li><a href="VMware_Fusion" title="VMware Fusion">VMware Fusion</a></li>
<li><a href="VMware_Workstation" title="VMware Workstation">VMware Workstation</a> (<a href="VMware_Workstation_Player" title="VMware Workstation Player">Player</a>)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ganeti" title="Ganeti">Ganeti</a></li>
<li><a href="System_Center_Virtual_Machine_Manager" title="System Center Virtual Machine Manager">System Center Virtual Machine Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="Virt-manager" title="Virt-manager">Virt-manager</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="OS-level_virtualization" title="OS-level virtualization">Operating<br>system</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">OS containers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="FreeBSD_jail" title="FreeBSD jail">FreeBSD jail</a></li>
<li>iCore Virtual Accounts</li>
<li><a href="Linux-VServer" title="Linux-VServer">Linux-VServer</a></li>
<li><a href="LXC" title="LXC">Linux Containers</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenVZ" title="OpenVZ">OpenVZ</a></li>
<li><a href="Solaris_Containers" title="Solaris Containers">Solaris Containers</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtuozzo_(company)#Software" title="Virtuozzo (company)">Virtuozzo</a></li>
<li><a href="Workload_Partitions" title="Workload Partitions">Workload Partitions</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Application containers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Docker_(software)" title="Docker (software)">Docker</a></li>
<li><a href="Podman" title="Podman">Podman</a></li>
<li><a href="Lmctfy" title="Lmctfy">lmctfy</a></li>
<li><a href="Container_Linux#Overview" title="Container Linux">rkt</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Virtual kernel architectures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Rump_kernel" title="Rump kernel">Rump kernel</a></li>
<li><a href="User-mode_Linux" title="User-mode Linux">User-mode Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="Vkernel" title="Vkernel">vkernel</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related kernel features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Solaris_Containers#Branded_zones" title="Solaris Containers">BrandZ</a></li>
<li><a href="Cgroups" title="Cgroups">cgroups</a></li>
<li><a href="Chroot" title="Chroot">chroot</a></li>
<li><a href="Linux_namespaces" title="Linux namespaces">namespaces</a></li>
<li><a href="EBPF" title="EBPF">eBPF</a></li>
<li><a href="Seccomp" title="Seccomp">seccomp</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orchestration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Amazon_Web_Services" title="Amazon Web Services">Amazon ECS</a></li>
<li><a href="Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">Kubernetes</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenShift" title="OpenShift">OpenShift</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Desktop_virtualization" title="Desktop virtualization">Desktop</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Citrix_Virtual_Apps" title="Citrix Virtual Apps">Citrix Virtual Apps</a></li>
<li><a href="Citrix_Virtual_Desktops" title="Citrix Virtual Desktops">Citrix Virtual Desktops</a></li>
<li><a href="Remote_Desktop_Services" title="Remote Desktop Services">Remote Desktop Services</a></li>
<li><a href="VMware_Horizon" class="mw-redirect" title="VMware Horizon">VMware Horizon</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Application_virtualization" title="Application virtualization">Application</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ceedo" title="Ceedo">Ceedo</a></li>
<li><a href="Citrix_Virtual_Apps" title="Citrix Virtual Apps">Citrix Virtual Apps</a></li>
<li><a href="Dalvik_(software)" title="Dalvik (software)">Dalvik</a></li>
<li><a href="InstallFree" title="InstallFree">InstallFree</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_App-V" title="Microsoft App-V">Microsoft App-V</a></li>
<li><a href="Remote_Desktop_Services" title="Remote Desktop Services">Remote Desktop Services</a></li>
<li><a href="Symantec_Workspace_Virtualization" title="Symantec Workspace Virtualization">Symantec Workspace Virtualization</a></li>
<li><a href="Turbo_(software)" title="Turbo (software)">Turbo</a></li>
<li><a href="VMware_ThinApp" title="VMware ThinApp">VMware ThinApp</a></li>
<li><a href="ZeroVM" title="ZeroVM">ZeroVM</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network_virtualization" title="Network virtualization">Network</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Distributed_Overlay_Virtual_Ethernet" title="Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet">Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet</a> (DOVE)</li>
<li><a href="Ethernet_VPN" title="Ethernet VPN">Ethernet VPN</a> (EVPN)</li>
<li><a href="Network_Virtualization_using_Generic_Routing_Encapsulation" title="Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation">NVGRE</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_vSwitch" title="Open vSwitch">Open vSwitch</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_security_switch" title="Virtual security switch">Virtual security switch</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_Extensible_LAN" title="Virtual Extensible LAN">Virtual Extensible LAN</a> (VXLAN)</li>
<li><a href="Generic_Network_Virtualization_Encapsulation" title="Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation">Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation</a> (GENEVE)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BlueStacks" title="BlueStacks">BlueStacks</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also: <a href="List_of_emulators" title="List of emulators">List of emulators</a>, <a href="List_of_computer_system_emulators" title="List of computer system emulators">List of computer system emulators</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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