[Nottingham] Some fun with the "free" VMware Player

[Michael Erskine]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone else is having a bash at this: I saw an article on 
RootPrompt yesterday afternoon about running multiple operating systems with 
VMware (http://RootPrompt.org/article.php3?article=9497 --> 
http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18). I haven't looked at world of VMware for 
about a year (I used the rather pricey VMware Workstation 3.1.1 extensively 
for platform testing a while ago) so I had a quick read and found that VMware 
now provide a "free" VMware "Player". This morning I downloaded and installed 
the Player, and I'm in the midst of running a Breezy install on a virtual 
machine. So far, so good! I wonder how this "free" (as in beer) product 
compares with other virtual machine environments currently available under 
Linux (UML etc.) - perhaps some of our list members have had some experience 
with the truly free (as in freedom) equivalents and could comment.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

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