Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-04-19 Thread Jeff VR
Sorry for the delay. It looks like someone recently posted a Ubuntu image, which is great. Anyway here is a link to the page which has the fedora core 5 based Vmware images that I use. The image has 20060822 build of pcb installed. There's plenty of bandwidth available yet and the download

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-03-08 Thread Sztrikó János
I'm interested in it. Have you found a host, is it available now? Thanks, Janos Jeff VR wrote: Well, based on the discussion I think there is definitely some interest and it's worth providing. I haven't made huge strides to make the image smaller but compressed it's around 830MB. I've got a

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-20 Thread Jeff VR
Well, based on the discussion I think there is definitely some interest and it's worth providing. I haven't made huge strides to make the image smaller but compressed it's around 830MB. I've got a couple hosting options I'm looking into with sufficient bandwidth. It should be available in a

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Mike Hansen
there was no going back, the performance difference was substantial. From: John Griessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:27:26PM -0500, al davis wrote: I think I am beginning to understand .. A Live CD requires no other software. No operating system other than the one on the CD. Hence anyone can run it, but with a reboot. And while in the Live CD you can't run your normal

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:44:27PM -0600, John Griessen wrote: I heard from a professor that the concept of offering server machines loaded with gEDA and such was a dead issue because of VMware's market share and popularity for avoiding installation time, and just using huge areas of disks

gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Jeff VR
Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? I created as well as use one based off of Fedora Core 5. I made it available at the local IEEE meeting last night and 10 copies made there way out the door. Jeff VR ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:57:36AM -0600, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? I created as well as use one based off of Fedora Core 5. I made it available at the local IEEE meeting last night and 10 copies made there way out the door. Sounds good to me. --

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread al davis
On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? What is a VMPlayer Image? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:30:52PM -0500, al davis wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? What is a VMPlayer Image? I assumed that he meant VMWare Player image. Although, as far as I know, the same image can also be used

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread al davis
On Friday 16 February 2007 14:26, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:30:52PM -0500, al davis wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? What is a VMPlayer Image? I assumed that he meant VMWare Player image.

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:14:03PM -0500, al davis wrote: I googled it .. it seems that it relates to some commercial product called VMware, and VMplayer is a cover-crop variant of VMware. What can I do with a VMPlayer Image ... Assuming I have VMPlayer (which I don't) is the image

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Craig Niederberger
*Yes*. My EECS students prefer to run linux inside vmware, as they typically have laptops with single drives. Thanks, Craig On 2/16/07, Jeff VR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? I created as well as use one based off of Fedora Core 5. I made it

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Mike Hansen
the thing that's holding this up is who wants to host a 500MB+ download? From: Craig Niederberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org To: gEDA user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:14:04

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread al davis
On Friday 16 February 2007 15:18, Joshua Boyd wrote: Does that answer your question?  In this case a VMWare image could be a useful alternative to a LiveCD, with the benefit that you can keep your regular desktop running at the same time as the Image, which you can't exactly do with a livecd.

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread John Griessen
Craig Niederberger wrote: *Yes*. My EECS students prefer to run linux inside vmware, as they typically have laptops with single drives. Joshua Boyd wrote: What VMware does very right is that it allows you to easily move virtual machines, in the form of images, from one machine to another.