[NTLUG:Discuss] Difference between VMPlayer and the newfree VMWare Server

[Don]

excellent -- thanks for the help!!

don

--- Burton Strauss <Burton.Strauss at comcast.net> wrote:

> A VM (whether custom- or pre- built) is JUST LIKE A
> REAL PC where you have
> access to the physical hardware.
> 
> So anything you could do if it were a physical box
> somebody dropped on your
> floor you can do to a VM.
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:tx.saluki at sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:21 AM
> To: Burton.Strauss at comcast.net; NTLUG Discussion
> List
> Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] Difference between
> VMPlayer and the newfree
> VMWare Server
> 
> Can you then update these pre-built VM's ?  I.e. if
> I were to get the Fedora
> core 5 test 1, and test 2 comes out -- can I then
> just get the updated RPM's
> and use them?  
> 
> 
> --- Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Setting up a VM is just like setting up a bare
> metal PC.  Exactly the 
> > same.
> > When it first starts up there's nothing there and
> you better give it a 
> > CD or floppy to boot from to install the OS.
> > 
> > However, when it comes to VMs there are also a
> number of 'pre-built' 
> > VMs available.  For example VMWare has their
> 'browser appliance', 
> > which is a Linux disto (don't know which one) with
> a web browser.  The 
> > idea is that if you fireup the VM and use that web
> browser, even if 
> > you get a bad piece of malware, all you have lost
> is the VM.
> > 
> > Other pre-built VMs are created for demonstration.
> 
> > Instead of having to
> > install a package under all flavors of Linux, a 50
> or 100MB pre-built 
> > is a GREAT demo - you KNOW it will work.
> > 
> > Go here: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/ to see the
> variety available - 
> > just the community one include three IP PBXes,
> half a dozen firewalls 
> > and starter/test releases for maybe 20 OSes.
> > 
> > -----Burton
> > 
> > 
> >-
> 
>