[Tfug] Virtualization

[Tyler Kilian]

We use VMware quite a bit here to great success.  There are great
"appliances" you can download as well for home tinkering that have an
application and OS- pre-built to run as a VM.


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> Joe Blais wrote:
>> I tried downloading vmware, but never figured how to create a machine.
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> Vmware has two free products... VMware Player (runs existing Vms, no
> creation) and VMware Server (Create and run). perhaps you grabbed the
> wrong one?
>
>> I knew
>> the MS stuff so I didn't take time to figure vmware out.
>
> In the case of using Linux as the guest os, VMware is definitely worth
> the "figuring out" time. The "VMware Tools for Linux" includes
> accelerated networking, X11 graphics, and suspend & resume support.
> Linux guests seem much more responsive under VMware. Windows guests also
> seem pretty snappy. Windows boots faster in the VM than on bare metal
> (YMMV).
>
> Shawn
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> Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xB64200E1)
> Unix Systems Group; CCIT
> University of Arizona
> nock at email.arizona.edu
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Tyler Kilian
Krispy Kreme - The Edible Linux