On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:53:41AM +0100, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Where can you obtain vmware player from if its freeware please, and is it available for other flavours of Linux?
Try guessing - www.vmware.com.
Vmware comes in various guises, the ones I know (a very little) about are:-
Vmware Player - runs 'ready made' client images, free Vmware Workstation - as above but can create images and is a more complete 'ready to run' appliaction, costs quite a bit Vmware Server - runs as a server so remote users can run client OS, free but quite a bit more difficult to set up.
There are lots more, mostly expensive and aimed at corporate users.
Vmware Player can do just about all that Vmware Workstation can do, it's just that creating new client images is more roundabout and you need to find a few extras from the Vmware site for yourself and install them.
The vmware web site has *lots* of information, possibly too much for the new user.
Vmware will run on virtually any Linux distribution, I have it running on Slackware which is 'not supported'. It's just that the supported distributions will install with less hassle. It will also run on various versions of windows as host. Again the Vmware web site will tell you all you need to know and more.