only 5 !!<br>
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it does help to have lots of RAM with it - I use full blown vmware and
have a copy of subset of the office network - currenty 12 machines - it
does crawl a bit when all running on a 1G RAM machine.<br>
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we also use player to run machines within machines - keeps clients away
from special apps/configs, they just run locked down client under
player and access it via web browser - saves lots of mistakes by users
tinkering.<br>
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only problem we have with player version is you cant access a host shared area of disk - hopefull y this will come soon.<br>
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Ian<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 21/08/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Cannon</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@cannon-linux.co.uk">peter@cannon-linux.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi All<br><br>I've decided to do a bit of unpaid, unauthorised promotion. VMWare just keeps<br>getting better and better I don't mean in application although IMO its top<br>notch what I mean is the 'usability and benefit'.
<br><br>You don't even need to create your own machines anymore! VM now host a<br>database of virtual appliances <a href="http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/">www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/</a> That's where I<br>got my Debian Sarge from. You'll need the VMPlayer which is free
<br><a href="http://www.vmware.com">www.vmware.com</a><br><br>There is both Linux and Windows versions of VMPlayer so everyone is happy the<br>beauty is say you want to try something out (I'm currently messing with<br>Covide on Debian and Nagios on SuSE) but you don't want to hose/snot up your
<br>lovely stable install so long as you have say a minimum of 10GB hard drive<br>capacity somewhere, even a USB drive will do although speed might be an<br>issue, install the player download the virtual appliance you want and install
<br>away till you fill the virtual machine.<br><br>The guest operating system is fully functional you can update, install and<br>remove, you could stick it on an external LTop HDD drive have one player at<br>home and one at work and transport it back and forth. I do :)
<br><br>I currently have 5 virtual appliances at home so in effect that gives me 6<br>computers 1 being the host and 5 being the guests and the best bit is its<br>FREE.<br><br>--<br>Regards<br>Peter Cannon<br><a href="http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk">
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