On Jul 5, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Don Gould wrote:
Bear in mind that it's VMWare Player not VMWare.
Yes, I see that... I'm still no 100% clear on what that means.
VMWare has a long reputation of being very good, and costing $$$.
Recently they released the free-as-in-beer VMWare Player, which would
only play images generated in $$$ versions of VMWare software ...
except that the config file format is simple, and the disk images can
be easily created with other software, such as qemu support tools.
In theory if you have VMWare player, you do not have enough to do
anything. You need to download an image created by someone else ... or
follow the steps I just posted in an earlier followup on this thread to
make your own.
I want to run a linux instance on my xp box. QEMU does this (thou
seems to have bugs and is very slow).
VMWare Player does the same thing that QEMU does, for i386 only, and
probably "better"=="less bugs". I suspect you didn't install the qemu
accelerator if you used the phrase "very slow" however.
QEMU is open source, VMWare Player is not. Mind you, your base OS isn't
open source either, so I guess in this example that's not the prime
consideration. RMS would be displeased :-(
I don't understand if that's what vmware will do or if it's more like
a vnc/vncserver application, ie it allows you to view sessions on
another machine.
Confusingly, VMWare Server is like that; it's an entire OS distribution
IIRC, a Linux of some sort, and runs multiple guest OS images ... a bit
like Citrix/Windows Terminal. The (free-as-in-beer) VMWare Server
Console allows you to attach to a running OS within the VMWare Server.
Not what you want in this instance.
Of course, if you had a whole machine running Ubuntu in your network,
you could just run something like Xming on the XP machine, allow XDMCP
connections to the Ubuntu machine, and get an entire desktop via X. But
you're not doing that either ;-)
-jim
