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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Right, the way I know VMWare you can't change the size of a disk image, but since the image "grows" you can make it as many gigs you like and it still won't be that big until it gets filled with actual data. Because the image represents a disk, I believe you can have partitions on it and change their sizes as you wish, I'm not sure how partitions would affect the growing feature though.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. One could even create a generic machine with an empty HD image using the evaluation version, store that away, and then make copies and install any system from CDs under the free player. Unless the player is crippled so you can't access CDs, that is.