-----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:04 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old... > > >> Not everyone has a spare test machine. > > I can never remember if we are supposed to top-quote or not. But > here goes: > > If you need a spare test machine you should look into the VMWare > Player. It is free and allows you to run a Virtual Machine on your > desktop. Saying: "I don't have a spare machine", these days is red > herring. Maybe you can't or won't make the time. That is something > else entirely. > > Please remember that Cygwin and other projects are largely > volunteer efforts. >
VMWare player is only for *PLAYING* VMWare files. In order to set a VM up you gotta get VMWare Desktop or VMWare Server, like I have here on my box. Plus, VMs are much, much slower than normal boxes so it's not really a red herring if you can't even install the OS on the VM! For example, I couldn't even get Windows 2000 Server on the VM to even initilize the text-mode setup program (WINNT.EXE)! Charli -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
