Starting to sound like Gargamel, but I HATE VMWare ;p So I pity your job and welcome you even more :)
Why I do not like VMWare? Well, either they are very good in crippling illegal versions OR (my guess) their software has been and will always be very buggy.
Still, when I had 8GB of RAM recently I started to use it - if only to clean up all that old iron suffocating up my home ;p
Examples of problems I've seen?
Guest 1, Windows 7: task manager won't show CPU graphs in task manager
Guest 1, Windows 7: network icon says there is a problem, still there is internet. Fixed by repair setup VMWare
Guest 2, Mac OS X: no way to install client tools. Without it, Safari new tab will halt the guest. The fancy new tab display Safari uses really needs proper video support. A friend of mine sent me some tools - still didn't feel like testing it
In general: although promised many times... Sharing (drag drop! copy paste!) between host and guest...? Still haven't seen it working!
But yeah, in the end, it more or less all is still working and I admit, it gives some great and quick testing possibilities... And I use VMWare not in a stable way on server hardware with no software interrupting or being "different" (connecting one of my VPN softwares on Guest 1 will blue screen my windows 8 ent. x64 client...).
So welcome my son :) And if you have some quick tips how to gain some hard drive space back... Please inform in a new topic; for sharing (and immediately unsharing) my Ubuntu guest added another 150GB of disk space usage :|
Half karma for VMWare... And peace!
Devvie
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