VMware
has released VMware Player version 1.0.0-final for Windows and Linux. VMware Player runs virtual machines (VM’s) created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server. It also supports VM’s created with Virtual PC and Virtual Server from Microsoft. VMware also released version 1.0.0 of their free Browser Appliance VM running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 with Mozilla Firefox 1.07 and 1.5.
VMware Player 1.0 Released
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Vmware targets commercial environments with it’s Vmware workstation. I think this is really cool that they are giving away Vmware player for free.
At this point, somebody can downlonad Vmware workstation, install their os of choice, then uninstall vmware workstation and install vmware player and use it indefinitly.
It would be nice if they just integrated it into Vmware Workstation and when the 30 day liscense expires you have full use of your virtual machines but cannot install any more virtual machines. but that could lower their revenue.
I’m all for OSS, but when a proprietary software comes about that I can’t live without, I will buy it, Vmware is one of those products.
Great job Vmware team, keep up the good work and thanks for the free (beer) use of your virtual machine.
Edited 2005-12-13 03:49
Or, you can go here:
http://petruska.stardock.net/software/vmware/
Scroll to the bottom of the page. You want the “VMX Builder” Create your own VM’s for Player.
VMware rocks, no doubt about it. This is how the GoogleOS will be hosted, no doubt
Can you provide a link to the page for GoogleOS, I heard it was just a rumor and I’d like to see for myself whether there really is such a thing.
Is it possible to upgrade the vmplayer version included in Workstation 5.5?
I want to install these new version but is does not allow this because VMware Workstation 5.5 is already installed.
You cannot install the player AND the workstation.
You can because both products are installed om my W2K machine now with a default WS 5.5 installation. Only a seperate upgrade of VMware Player is not possible.
In Linux vmware player is just one binary, so extract it from tar.gz or rpm and put it in its place (/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer)
Artem Tashkinov
Anyone know of a good link (or links) to VM’s? I find the selection listed off the VM page rather sparse…and googling for “vmware player vm” doesn’t seem too effective. Cheers!
You might be interested in the following:
http://www.brunofreitas.com/portal/files/vm_templates.zip
It worked really well for me. It is a set of “blank” VM templates for every major operating system that VMWare supports, providing an excellent starting point for installing OSes onto.
OK… Very well, but it’s still not possible to access the host filesystem from the client side (when running the host on MS)…
You can share the dir on the Windows host and access it via Samba on the client vm. Not (very) dificult to set it up.
Not being able to read host files is a feature, not a bug. It makes things more secure.
If you need to move stuff around, you can set up file sharing.
I’ll admit, I did a quick read to get up and running, so I apologize up front. I have VPC, do I need to fully install and confugre a VM, them copy over the .vmc & .vhd files?
Boohoo, I want solaris support…
Kinda weird that they leave a readme text file in the home directory of the browser appliance but don’t include a text editor to read it with. Ah well, at least gedit is a just quick apt-get away.