[AuckLUG] Running multiple operating systems simultaneously

[Balaji VP]

VMware have lot of other tools you can use. Simliar to you can convert VM
image to physical image, vice versa. VMWorkstation give you lot of
portablity of the image. Where as the VMPlayer only plays image, which mean
if you run the image on the VMplayer once you switch off the machine its
goes back to original state. On the VMWare forum , you also can get prebuild
ISO(Image) which you can download and install. Virtual appliances are
pre-built, pre-configured ready-to-run enterprise applications that are
packaged with an optimized operating system in a virtual machine.  Not only
are these self-contained application stacks easy to deploy and instantly
available, they are also more secure and reliable.  Certified virtual
appliances are optimized to run in production on VMware virtualization
platforms.  http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/

Personally I have feel VMWare is better than Virtual PC.  I belive you get a
free License for VMware server / VMware player as well,

Hope this helps..

Regards
Balaji.V.P


On 7/24/07, editor at inventory.co.nz <editor at inventory.co.nz> wrote:

> Oops! I made a mistake with the email I sent earlier today; please
> ignore it. I got confused between VMware Player and VMware Workstation.
>
> I have a computer with a dual core AMD processor and 4 Gb RAM currently
> running Windows XP Professional. That will be my main operating system
> for some time to come but I want to migrate gradually, but not totally,
> to linux (probably Ubuntu).
>
> When looking for suitable virtualisation software, I found Microsoft
> Virtual PC 2007 (which is free) and VMware Workstation 6.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with Microsoft Virtual PC? Microsoft
> claims that there are no problems running linux on a virtual machine
> created using Virtual PC but I have read that there are some problems
> with some of the linux distros, particularly some of the less common
> ones, but I don't know which ones.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Don Johnston
>
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