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Several. The one I like is the free VMWare Server. It's a virtual machine that lets you run any OS on another OS. You can also try open source virtual machines like QEMU.
caracal:/home/caracal # rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.3.8_openSUSE102-2.i586.rpm
warning: waiting for exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
caracal:/home/caracal # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
caracal:/home/caracal #
caracal:/home/caracal # rpm -ivh VirtualBox-1.3.8_openSUSE102-2.i586.rpm
warning: waiting for exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
caracal:/home/caracal # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
caracal:/home/caracal #
what it means?
I'd venture to guess you need to install it as root.
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