Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running vmware?

["Michael Lazin" <microlaser@gmail.com>]

If you have 2 or 3 windows programs you want to use, wine is often a good idea.  If wine is not suitable, the vmware player really is a good product.  It is possible to create virtual machines manually for the vmplayer.  See 
http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php.  Examples of creating virtual machines for vmplayer abound.  I used qemu to hand create windows xp and solaris 10 virtual machines, and I use them with vmplayer on a regular basis.   Plus there are many really cool  pre-configured virtual machines available for download.  See 
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances.

Michael

On 5/6/06, Marc Zucchelli < marcz908@yahoo.com> wrote:

I heard there is now a free version.  I went on the
site and it looks like vmware player is the only free
product.  It says it can run any virtual machine
created by the vmware workstation, etc.  Would this
mean that I'd have to purchase the vmware workstation
anyway, and if I had that, why would I need the
player.

There are 2 or 3 windows programs that I need for my
business, and I hate booting out of linux and into
windows, it wastes so much time.  My options are to
buy another box, or to start running vmware.

Does anybody have any experience with this?


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