It appears that the free VMware player can't just read an iso. Where can I get a good Ubuntu virtual appliance?
On 5/28/07, Bryce Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ryan, > > The VMWare player is the best starting point. Just download and install the > player, then get an image from somewhere (you can find a plethora of them on > the VMWare web site). After downloading the image, its as simple as double > clicking on the file in explorer or launching it via the start menu. > > Bryce > > > Ryan Krauss wrote: > What is the easiet way to get started with VMWare with windows as the > host operating system? Do I need just VMware player? Do I need some > Ubuntu kernel or image or something? > > Ryan > > On 5/27/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Charles R Harris wrote: > > > On 5/24/07, *Ryan Krauss* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I am trying to use Numpy/Scipy for a class I am teaching this summer. > I have one student running Vista. Is there an installer that works > for Vista? Running the exe file from webpage gives errors about not > being able to create various folders and files. I think this is from > Vista being very restrictive about which files and folders are > writable. Is anyone out there running Numpy/Scipy in Vista? If so, > how did you get it to work? > > > Install Ubuntu? ;) I've heard nothing but complaints and nasty words > from co-workers stuck with new computers and trying to use Vista as a > development platform for scientific work. > > Just a follow-up, vmware is now given away and Ubuntu has always been > free, and I guess most computers with Vista have native support for > virtualization. So, this way you could run Ubuntu and Vista > simultaneously without a speed loss on either or partitioning the drive. > Of course, if it were me I'd put Ubuntu as the host OS and probably > never boot the guest OS. ;) > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
