[AuckLUG] Running multiple operating systems simultaneously

[Ravi Chemudugunta]

VMware rocks! yes VMware player only lets your "play" images and you need
VMware Workstation to create images;

but you can use easyvmx to create empty images / virtual machine
configuration files (http://www.easyvmx.com/) and install your favorite os
on them (using iso's or cd's).  You can achieve similar things with qemu-img
but you have to write the configuration file(s) yourself.

hope this helps,

ravi

On 7/24/07, Scott Newton <scott.newton at integralgroup.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 13:43, Martin Bähr wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:45:19PM +1200, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> > > You want VMware Server, not VMware Player. AFAIK Player can't create
> new
> > > Virtual hosts, Server can. Both are free (as in beer).
> >
> > what does "creating new virtual hosts" mean?
> > i thought you just point vmware at a disk or a disk image and start
> > running it...
>
> You have three options:
> 1. Create a new virtual host and install Linux on it from scratch. This is
> the
> equivalent of an install on an unformatted hard drive. This does require
> VMWare Server - Player only lets you "play" images, not create or change
> them.
> 2. Use the converter that is also free to convert an existing disk to a
> VMWare
> image which you "play" using VMWare Player.
> 3. Download an image from the Appliance section on the VMWare site (or
> from
> somewhere else) and "play" it using VMWare Player.
>
> There may be others but those are the three I know about :-)
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Scott Newton | Technical Analyst | Integral Technology Group Ltd
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