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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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.