How do i install vmware on my laptop?
 

Hello,

I have windows vista and Fedora linux on my laptop. I do not want to reboot every time i want to get into Linux, so i want to install vmware.

Is there a free version available for me to install. If so from where can i get it? & ho do i install it ?

OR

Is there any other way in which i can use Linux OS from running Windows ?

Thanks,

I use VMware player so that I can access a Windows install to use a couple of applications that don't have Linux versions. The VMware player is free, you can download an RPM version. Also use http://www.easyvmx.com/ to create the Windows virtual machine file to start with. If you open that with VMware player you can boot of a Windows CD/DVD to install it.

vmware server is also free.
vmware server and vmware player can be installed on either a Windows or Linux host.

http://www.vmware.com/products/product_index.html

vmware server will allow you to create virtual machines and configure them how you want. then you can install whatever OS you want onto those virtual machines.

Can i install a VMware server edition on my laptop ?
 

Can i install a VMware server edition on my laptop .
I saw that only the server edition is free of cost..
So, is the server edition compatible on laptops?

thanks

I've got VMware server (version 2) installed on my laptop and it works just fine. The only real issue I ran into is that version 1 of VMware server has an exceedingly difficult time connecting the virtual network card to a wireless card. Version 2 however, works fine with a wireless card.

Hello again,

I have installed vmware server-2 on my dell inspiron, But i get an error message when i try to open the installed component.
what should be the http, https port numbers.

Error message :

hemanthv:8233 uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because it is self signed.

(Error code: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid)

thanks.

From what I've seen from googling, this is a Firefox 3 error, not something with VMware. Have a look at the last post in this thread and see if that fixes the problem. A similar solution is in the release notes.