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I was interested in VmWare. Right now I'm working on my Capstone Project for class and heard a little bit about VmWare. I've heard VmWare can do things like Virtualalization w/ Virtual host(what ever the hell that means.) and so on.
Questions:
-Can VmWare run other partitions on your hard drive like Ubantu, WindowsXP, FreeBSD, and etc. ?
-If so, do you have to have a certain Edition of VmWare?
-Is it difficult to set up VmWare to do such things?
No its very easy and after you've registered you can download a free trail of VMWare Workstation. This fits best to your needs. And if you've got enough space left on your hdd then you can run tons of different operating systems you want ;-)
More memory more Power. Virtual PC is not so good as VMWare is cause it's from a company that only has got virtualisation products and not like MS that just also wants to offer something like that...... and you also can have vmware for linux.
VMware is very good at running a number of distros or even XP. You have to install XP again under VMware which means you can get problems with M$ believing you are loading a pirate copy of XP. Call their customer support centre and explain what you are trying to do and they will give you a new key.
I'm running the free vmware server on Ubuntu and in the past has worked very well. Kernel upgrades can cause a few problems. The other free product besides vmserver is vmware player. It does allow the creation of new OS; it just runs preconfigured ones (which you can download for free too). The advantage of vmware server is that you can get a distro from say the front of a magazine and create a so-called 'virtual machine' which then allows you to run the oter distro to check it out. Virtual Machines are the way of the future... At the moment it is still unstable under Ubuntu for the average guy (like me) but as it develops and runs without too many problems it will really take off.
As the other guy above said; you need plenty of disk space if you wnat to keep all the distros you want to try. You don't acutally create partitions either, which is great.
I am going to most definately check out VMware for WinXp & Win 2k3.
I got to say, after I've downloaded and installed the trial-VMware Workstation RPM on my Fedora Core 5,and I could not get VMWare to execute. I opened up a terminal and typed in the command that they give you from their website's install guide(can't remember and don't fell like finding it right now) and I got the error that doesnt recognize the command. I've noticed alot RPMs don't work for me so I just stick w/ .targz (tarballz) whenever I have the choice.
I bet it so simple yet What is the command to execute VMWare from the CLI?
I am going to most definately check out VMware for WinXp & Win 2k3.
I got to say, after I've downloaded and installed the trial-VMware Workstation RPM on my Fedora Core 5,and I could not get VMWare to execute. I opened up a terminal and typed in the command that they give you from their website's install guide(can't remember and don't fell like finding it right now) and I got the error that doesnt recognize the command. I've noticed alot RPMs don't work for me so I just stick w/ .targz (tarballz) whenever I have the choice.
I bet it so simple yet What is the command to execute VMWare from the CLI?
this is common i had this same problem. make sure you install the xinetd and kernel development packages.. and then execute this command /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. when it asks for your header files place them here /usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-i686/include/. the rest is up to you. I also agree with you about using tgz. compiling from the source is much better. you can find the commands in the tutorial section
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