[AuckLUG] Running multiple operating systems simultaneously

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:27:50 pm Balaji VP wrote:
> 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.

This is just not true. With the player you solely cannot create fresh images 
or modify basic properties of the operating system instance through the 
provided GUI.

If you can get/create a blank image, then you can do pretty much everything 
with the player you can do with the workstation version. You may just need to 
tinker with the configuration file manually. If you want to get around that, 
just go to the web site Ravi mentioned (http://www.easyvmx.com/) select 
comfortably the boundary conditions you want your system to provide and have 
a blank created magically. Then continue with the player.

I use the player here all the time with various operating systems, and it 
NEVER happens that it resets the image to the original state. There may 
however be a setting that does that, provided you want it that way. But it's 
surely not the default.

Guy

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