Re: [sheflug] Free VMWare Server and Player

[AndyHalsall <andyhalsall [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

>> Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>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.
>> .....
>>
> Andrew J. Baker wrote:
> And let's not forget the open source offering, Xen:
> 
> http://www.xensource.com/
> 
> For those individuals interested in running Linux VMs on UltraSPARC 
> check out this article on The Register...
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/13/sun_hyper_xen/
> 
> Cheers, Andy.

And lets also not forget QEMU Which works great and is GPL'd, its
lacking a GUI For setting stuff up but it works great... (please correct
me if Im wrong, Im sure someone could have put one together...- Maybe I
should?)

http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/about.html

Look at the supported OS's page and you will note that it will emulate
x86 and x86_64 architectures right up to WinXP - and will also do Mac OS
(if you can get a disk image) on PowerMac, as well as Debian on emulated
PowerMac, PPC, SPARC, ARM, MIPS chips.

It gets better all the time, and is certainly functional for windows
OS's and actually quite quick. Read the man page and you should find out
everything you need to know.

Cheers, Andy H

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