[nzlug] Virtualizating DataCAD?

[Cliff Pratt]

Johann Schoonees wrote:
> 
> 
> Roger Searle wrote:
>> Johann Schoonees wrote:
>>> I see that the open source (OSE) version of Virtualbox does not 
>>> support VM USB (nothing about the parallel port).  If I have to buy 
>>> something then it might as well be VMware.
>>>
>>> Johann
>> Or... download the free (as in cost) VMWare Server - which has easy 
>> USB support.
> 
> Man, VMware go out of their way to obfuscate...
> 
> I had a look through their website (which is choked with 
> marketing-speak) and concluded that I needed "VMware Workstation" (USD 
> 189).  I just want a single user to run a single Windows application on 
> a single Linux platform, no?
> 
> "VMware Server" can "provision a new server in minutes," "simplify IT 
> testing," and "[realize] the benefits of server virtualization."  Didn't 
> sound like anything I wanted to do.
> 
> "VMware Player" is also free-as-in-beer but it needs someone else to 
> create the VM... aah the penny has just dropped.  I have to download 
> *both* Server and Player.  One "creates" the virtual machine and the 
> other, ah, "plays" it?
> 
> Is that it?  I'm not sure I understand the implied separation of functions.
> 
Server 'plays' them as well. It is all that you need.

Cheers,

Cliff