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I'm thinking of getting VMware to learn samba. I'll use VMware to have a couple virtual XP pro machines in Fedora and have a little test network for the samba ...
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  1. 05-18-2005 #1
    LBmtb
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    who uses vmware?

    I'm thinking of getting VMware to learn samba. I'll use VMware to have a couple virtual XP pro machines in Fedora and have a little test network for the samba server.

    This will work, right? Does anyone that uses it have any comments about VMware?

    It'll be 110 for the academic downloadable linux version.
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  2. 05-19-2005 #2
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    Yes it will work.

    It should work like a champ. Use bridged networking so each machine will have its own IP on the same subnet. Then treat them like they are 2 physical machines. I secure copy (scp) and secure shell (ssh) between my linux host and xp guest with no issues.

    Dean.
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    Have you thought about qemu?

    I am pretty sure it can do networking, and its free!

    Just somthing to look into before you go spending money.
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    I've tried both vmware and qemu. Only major thing qemu is missing is ability to take snapshots (useful to returning to a paticular state). Also virtual disk drives. In qemu say you want a 10GB partition...it must be fully allocated. In vmware you can have it virtually allocated on as it fills up.

    Qemu being free is awesome. XEN might just in a year or so blow qemu away from what I've been reading.
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  5. 05-23-2005 #5
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    I downloaded the trial version of vmware and I like it a lot. Allows me to mess around with a 'test' lan and play around with samba, use quicken, dreamweaver, etc etc.

    Does anyone know where I can download a system policy editor for 2000/nt/xp? (for use with samba) As far as I know it only comes on 2k server and nt server cd's.
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    im going to a conference about vmware apparently you get a free copy of workstation 5 or something. i wonder how good it is
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  7. 05-23-2005 #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by emmabugg
    im going to a conference about vmware apparently you get a free copy of workstation 5 or something. i wonder how good it is
    Let us know how it goes
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  8. 05-23-2005 #8
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    I was gonna go to one of those conferences (just for the free copy of VMWare 5 :P) but it turns out they don't have any in the UK .
    I used VMWare a lot when I was new to linux and I used it on Windows to run linux so I didn't kill Windows accidentally .
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