[Gllug] [OT] VMWare Player

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:06:46AM +0000, john levin wrote:
> Simon Morris wrote:
> >Just in case people haven't seen this.
> >
> >The VMWare player is now a free (as in cost) download and runs very
> >well on Linux.
> >
> >With the player you cannot create new virtual machines but there are
> >some available to download that run in the player and if you know
> >someone with the VMWare workstation version you can create them and
> >take them away with you..
> >
> >So you can now test new software (like the CRM software Simon Wilcox
> >recommended) without trashing your existing install. I loves it
> >
> >The VMWare Player
> >http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
> >
> >Virtual Machine Downloads
> >http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/community.html
> >
> >--
> >~sm
> 
> I've been using VMware Player quite a bit recently, on WinXP. Dare I say 
> (dons flame-retardant) that it makes using Windows palatable? There's 
> quite a few images - I currently have Debian, 2x *BSDs, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, 
> (and the VMWare Browser Appliance based on Ubuntu), KDE on Suse.
> 
> Now I just have to find a way to share data between all these images. Is 
> such a thing possible?

Not sure about the restricted functionality VMWare Player, but the VMWare GSX 
server allowed you to setup a network bridge across the VM and the host OS
network. If that's still possible in VMWare Player, then you can just let 
your VM boot, grab a dhcp address & then directly mount a samba/nfs share
from any machine on your LAN.

QEMU has at least 6 different ways of setting up networking, to enable
access to either the host, or wider LAN - you can even setup a 100% 
userspace virtual network across QEMU instances using IP multicast which
is particularly fun !

Regards,
Dan.
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