I have a number of objectives...
I want to be able to put img of an os on cd for user.
I want to be able to run a linux session on a windows machine without
having to stuff about with the patition table.
I want to be able to run up a linux distro then hand it out for review
of specific issues without having to go thru the install process.
We have 3 hours on Thursdays with the students so I need things "this
one we made earlier".
The owners of the equipment we have access to within the schools aren't
going to be happy if we go changing the setups on their machines and are
also likly to wipe out our setup if they do an SOE rebuild.
Cheers Don
Jim Cheetham wrote:
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
