* Re: [gentoo-amd64] Virtualization/WinXP
@ 2010-01-27 2:33 99% ` Mark Knecht
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From: Mark Knecht @ 2010-01-27 2:33 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-amd64
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/10 08:47, Marko Obrovac wrote:
>> Hello Mark,
>>
>> 2010/1/26 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
>>
> <snip>
>>>
>>> 1) If I go the VMWare route is it vmware-workstation that I want?
>>>
> <snip>
>> You might want to try vmware-player (if you want to go the
>> vmware way). It is free, but it comes with restrictions. The major
>> disadvantage is - you can't create your own images, you can only "play"
>> them.
>
> Not exactly. VMWare Player's [.vmx] configuration file is a simple
> plain-text file and you can pretty much create your own disk image for
> any OS from blank disk image (downloadable). One of my first Linux
> machine was Ubuntu on VMWare Player from blank disk image (though I did
> copy the base config file from a pre-made, customizing the .vmx file is
> near-trivial).
>
> I believe there are also some 3rd party software for creating VMWare
> configuration file, though I never used them.
>
>
I still have two WinXP images I created a year ago sitting around when
I tried the workstation. I suppose I can probably use those somehow
with the Player?
- Mark
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