Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 20th Oct 2005 02:17 UTC
VMWare released today the VMWare Player, a freely downloadable tool that 'plays' virtual machines (it just doesn't let you create any). This can prove a very important tool for OS makers who would like to demo their OS to new users, users who don't want to burn live CDs and also keep the OS makers safe from any hardware incompatibilities in the user's machine (as the OS would run inside VMWare Player, the compatibility is always guaranteed). VMWare already posted a demo for their VMWare Player, a 200 MB 'Browser Appliance' based on Ubuntu.
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2005-06-30
Nothing. I've installed several Linux distro's into the virtual disk images by modifying the .vmx file to specify a .iso and boot from that. I know of others who have installed various versions of Windows under it as well.