[sheflug] Free VMWare Server and Player

["Marcus D. Hanwell" <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Now I can post I will try posting a useful message ;) Didn't know if you guys 
had spotted that you can now get VMWare Player and VMWare Server for free 
now. Player is a great version of VMWare for using virtual machines that have 
already been made, but you cannot create new ones.

Server is the more recent release and it allows you to actually create new 
virtual machines. Both the Linux and Windows versions are available for 
download, and they also support 64 bit guests if you CPU does too. I am going 
to make a Gentoo VM once I have freed up a little disk space with KDE 3.5.1 
on it if anyone is interested.

This is great for open source developers as we can test stuff in sandboxes 
that are easy to manage, and it gives you access to Windows in a nice little 
padded cell should you need it for legacy applications etc. 

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

Sign up page doesn't work in Konqueror, but it does in Firefox. You also need 
to tell it you are in America, give it a state and a zip code due to a bug in 
their signup code...

I will bring my laptop to the next meeting to show it off anyway. They both 
work well here on amd64 Gentoo Linux systems.

Thanks,

Marcus

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