Vmware Player

[Weedman]

Far out, it is practical & fun. At least for me.

I installed it on a Windows machine, and now I run Suse 10.0, FreeBSD & FC5 on it with no problems.

There is actaully a way you can install OS's with the player. And that is awesome.

I Strongly recommend that any person that does not want to partition their hard drive, nor has a seperate hard drive spare (like me) try VMware player.

I couldn't be the only person to try this...surely.

~weed out

[gruven]

I use Vmware Workstation under an XP host now, and I run Ubuntu Linux in it. As a matter of fact, it runs my webserver, and it is what I use most. I run XP as the host because I have some hardware that needs Windows, and some things I like to use need Windows. This way you get the best of both worlds at the same time.

As a matter of fact, I am posting from the virtual Ubuntu installation right now. Plus, it is very simple and easy to make backups.

I can't wait to add more ram to add more virtual machines, and have different ones for different things, and just to try different distros out.

[Weedman]

Wow. How much did that set you back?

I bet the webserver would be hella secure, but how would people access it from the outside?

[gruven]

Wow. How much did that set you back?

I bet the webserver would be hella secure, but how would people access it from the outside?

You have different options on how it accesses the web. It can be bridged to your interface, it can use nat, host-only, and no internet. I have mine bridged to my interface on WinXP, and each virtual machine gets it's own ip on the internal network. Then I just use basic port forwarding to open the ports and direct the traffic.

Workstation is $189.00 USD if you buy it and download it from them. $199.00 Retail.

[Weedman]

That's interesting.

I had to set my VM's to host-only to get the net working under them. Now I know why. Thanks.

Wow, that much for that. Mmn, methinks I will stay with just player.

[gruven]

Sorry, you have 4 options (bridged, nat, host-only, custom). I have always used nat if I just wanted to surf, and I had to use bridged to allow it to run the server.

I like running it bridged now anyway for the extra ip addresses. That just means I can seperate the servers better between virtual machines and increase security between them. Plus, if you had multiple external IP addresses, you could map each one to a different virtual machine. That means you could run different servers on different machines without having to build a seperate machine for each.

It is really amazing the things you can do with Vmware.

[Weedman]

Hey I installed Player onto my laptop, then I installed FreeBSD.

It made my laptop go absolutely pscho. I was beeping madly. This happened when I booted Freebsd for my install.

What could cause this (apart from windows, of course)?

[gruven]

Possibly memory consumption? Heat issues? I really don't know. I haven't had that happen yet on my laptop, lol.

[razali2k5]

I am installing it right now I cant wait to see what it does

[gtmtnbiker98]

Download VMware server, it affords a lot more capability than the player and of course, it is free; however, still in beta until late June. Once final, the server will remain free. I've been using VMware server for a couple of months and love it. Almost forgot, more importantly, VMware server runs on Linux and Windows. I'm running VMware server on SuSE 10.1 and running CentOS 4.3 virtually.

Just make sure you have a lot of RAM.