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Hi there
Sorry if my post was a bit misleading -- what I meant was that you can log on to a VM running say on a W7 HOST without having an account on that HOST -- but your VM will need to be accessible via a Network so the user can logon from a CLIENT machine by using something like RDP. (Remote Desktop).
For example say your host is called CAT, your VM is called DOG and the remote user who wants to connect to your VM has a machine called FOX.
What you have to do is to ensure remote user can to RDP to DOG FROM HIS OWN MACHINE so you need to make DOG available on the network.
What using vmserver does is allow a number of virtual machines to be started IN THE BACKGROUND when the HOST is booted up.
With normal vm's on a workstation a user needs to be logged on to the HOST, then he / she starts the VM software as a user application and then logs on to the VM.
By using vmware server you are running your workstation as a sort of server.
(Note that if these VM's are XP / W7 etc then the normal restriction still applies in that only one user can login to the vm at a time. -- Running something like W2K3 or W2008 servers as a virtual machine is a much better proposition but more complex and expensive .
3 VM's for example can be running with a different SINGLE user on them of course.
BTW I'm not sure but I think currently vmware workstation rel 8 will also allow you to run VM's in the background -- however I think (although I could be wrong) someone has to start the vmware application at initial boot.
Read this
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws80/...tation_80.html
Cheers
and Happy Hols
Jimbo