[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Need a presenter for Feb 18th meeting

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:01:28PM -0600, Todd Robinson wrote:
> > We need a presenter for this month. Anyone??
> 
> Perhaps a VMPlayer / VMServer demo. I know I'd like to see that. Sounds 
> like Burton would be a good resource.
> 
> Another topic idea would be somebody comparing VMWare, Wine, etc of 
> common non-Linux apps such as Photoshop. (Yes, I've used Gimp before but 
> it doesn't have some of the critical features (to me) such as 48-bit 
> color depth.)

If no-one else is available, I'd be glad to do a demo/discussion of 
VMware workstation, although I haven't had any experience with 
VMware Player or VMware Server.  (I could probably talk about VMware
player in time for the meeting, VMware server would be difficult.)

FWIW, I frequently run Photoshop and other applications in a VMware
Workstation instance and it works quite nicely.  It's also very nice
because I can take snapshots of the WinXP instance just after loading
the software, updates, and applications, and then if a virus or
other problem shows up later I can just revert to the snapshot
instead of having to reload things from scratch and re-apply all
of the Windows Updates.

Pm