On 5/20/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like to be one of the good guys. I'm not always sure what that means in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here. Opinions welcome. Flames somewhat less so. I got a 30-day trial license for vmware, thinking to replace my aging Win4Lin. It seems to work (thanks to folks on this list). But I notice that now that I've created my VMs, I may not need workstation any more. I could do very well with the player, which is free. I'm using VMware to virtualize my old Win98 that used to run on a predecessor of the current host. On this, I run Quicken and I may decide to run some games as well. I'd just go ahead and buy Workstation except for the ~$200.-- price tag. But somehow it seems more like a $50.00 item for what I'm doing with it. I just feel a bit cheap using and ditching a trial version, since I'm definitely getting a benefit from it I could not have gotten otherwise (unless I could prevail on someone else to build the VM for me). On that point, what are the ethics of building VMs for others? What does VMware say about this? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Hi Kevin, VMware configurations and disks can be created manually Windows XP: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html Linux: http://www.linuxforums.org/applications/using_vmware_player_to_test_linux_distributions.html Even, you can create online version of you VMX file, with VM Builder: http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html And then create the disk with qemu-create. Or download empty images and then start the installation in VMware Player: http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php Well, then. If you want to create your own Images, besides all the information above, you *still* can download at no charge, VMware Server and create in the server environment your own VMware images, that can be opened with VMware Player. For me, VMware as a company, is opening for real the virtualization for home and students users. (and testing in office environments) The real business now is in other areas of Virtualization, as VMware ESX Server, and server consolidation. BTW, Microsoft and Virtual PC are free now too...but that's a different story. :) regards Andres -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
