[Wolves] VMPlayer Etc

[Peter Cannon]

Hi All

I've decided to do a bit of unpaid, unauthorised promotion. VMWare just keeps 
getting better and better I don't mean in application although IMO its top 
notch what I mean is the 'usability and benefit'.

You don't even need to create your own machines anymore! VM now host a 
database of virtual appliances www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ That's where I 
got my Debian Sarge from. You'll need the VMPlayer which is free 
www.vmware.com

There is both Linux and Windows versions of VMPlayer so everyone is happy the 
beauty is say you want to try something out (I'm currently messing with 
Covide on Debian and Nagios on SuSE) but you don't want to hose/snot up your 
lovely stable install so long as you have say a minimum of 10GB hard drive 
capacity somewhere, even a USB drive will do although speed might be an 
issue, install the player download the virtual appliance you want and install 
away till you fill the virtual machine.

The guest operating system is fully functional you can update, install and 
remove, you could stick it on an external LTop HDD drive have one player at 
home and one at work and transport it back and forth. I do :)

I currently have 5 virtual appliances at home so in effect that gives me 6 
computers 1 being the host and 5 being the guests and the best bit is its 
FREE.

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Regards
Peter Cannon
www.cannon-linux.co.uk

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