[Tfug] Virtualization

[Shawn Nock]

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Joe Blais wrote:
> I tried downloading vmware, but never figured how to create a machine.

Vmware has two free products... VMware Player (runs existing Vms, no
creation) and VMware Server (Create and run). perhaps you grabbed the
wrong one?

> I knew
> the MS stuff so I didn't take time to figure vmware out.

In the case of using Linux as the guest os, VMware is definitely worth
the "figuring out" time. The "VMware Tools for Linux" includes
accelerated networking, X11 graphics, and suspend & resume support.
Linux guests seem much more responsive under VMware. Windows guests also
seem pretty snappy. Windows boots faster in the VM than on bare metal
(YMMV).

Shawn
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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
Unix Systems Group; CCIT
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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