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.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:I've never had an excuse to use VMWare... What benefits does it offer over emulators like qemu and bochs? How about versus everybody's favorite VM/emulator buzzword, Xen?
Its more polished, simpler to configure, and a good deal faster than qemu or bochs. As for Xen, thats a bit of a different animal. Xen has its own niche, at least in the OSS world.
Member since:2005-10-11
In short it is mature, fast and reliable.
Also on the left there is a search tool, type 'vmware'.
From doing that, I came up with http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7899
Which is an article about the two leading virtualisation software products.
BTW, I like VPC too.
Member since:Thanks for mentioning qemu that looks interesting.
But really you can't compare VMWARE with Bochs.
Bochs is a full emulator--it's relatively SLOW, vmware is more a virtualizer. It's more akin to qemu's accelator(it appears) or plex86. And Xen is better than VMWare in speed, but requires that your OS be written to run on the XEN Virtual Machine, IIRC.
Member since:
Member since:
2005-06-29
I've never had an excuse to use VMWare... What benefits does it offer over emulators like qemu and bochs? How about versus everybody's favorite VM/emulator buzzword, Xen?