[Wolves] VMPlayer Etc

[Ian Harper]

only 5 !!

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.

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.

only problem we have with player version is you cant access a host shared
area of disk - hopefull y this will come soon.

Ian

On 21/08/06, Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter Cannon
> www.cannon-linux.co.uk
>
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> there is no excuse for not asking"
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