Virtual Machines

[Joep L. Blom]

Michael Haney wrote:
> On 10/16/2010 05:49 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>> Thierry de Coulon wrote:
>>    
>>> On Saturday 16 October 2010, Ted Hilts wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> If you use bridged networking you should be able to setup your virtual machine
>>> just like a standalone one.
>>>
>>> Note that there are two versions of Virtualbox, the "OSE" one with limitations
>>> but fully free, the other one usually not being distributed with Linux
>>> distributions but available on the virtualbox site.
>>>
>>> Then you could try Parallels and VMWare, they both have strength but they do
>>> cost money and are closed source. Both sould be available as trial software,
>>> so why not give them a try?
>>>
>>> Thierry
>>>
>>>      
>> Actually VMware Server and Vmware Player are free (not Open Source). I
>> use VMware Player without any problems for over a year now and find it
>> more stable that Virtualbox (but the last version I used was 2009).
>> Joep
>>
>>
>>
>>    
> But, aren't you limited to using pre-packaged virtual machines with 
> VMware Player?  You can't just start it up, create a virtual drive, and 
> install an OS.  You have to find and download an existing one.
> 
No. You can install an .iso system (or a CD or DVD)  (Ubuntu, Fedora, 
Windows, etc) and you can even translate a Virtualbox guset to a vmware 
guest and vice  versa.
Joep