[Sussex] VMWare

[Geoff Teale]

Derek wrote:
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> I use VMWare a lot to demo multiple clients on a virtual 
> network. As far as I understand, VMW will support 'doze 
> _only_ not other OS. That's the only difference I think. 
> Expensive ,perhaps, but very versatile and useful. Rather 
> better, I find, than WINE or Win4Lin.

Thanks.  Good info, searched on Google and found an old review from Linux
Journal - it seems that VMWare express only supports Win95 and Win98 - this
will do for both my principle needs, but won't allow me the luxury of
running my two "pet" OS's (Plan9 and QNX) without rebooting.  I wonder if I
can justify £265 on VMWare Workstaion ?  The clincher is of course, that
VMWare Express is no longer supported and there is no guarantee that it will
work on a gcc3.2 machine with current versions of glibc.

So now I'm faced with a trade off, I can spend £265 quid on a very useful
tool, or that could be an extra £265 going into my new PC... hmmm *thinks*..
Decisions, Decisions..

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