On Friday 08 September 2006 10:36, Ten wrote:
.I *think* I understand what Player is now, it can be used to run 'already created' VM system images but that's all. Thinking about it it's probably not very useful except in an environment where there are a lot of pretty similar machines as, presumably, an image created on one machine will only run satisfactorily on another where the hardware is *reasonably* similar.
As a note on this one, to support a few "windows-only" apps that wine wasn't having (and in light of an abundance of disk space), I've happily taken a VMWare image (It may have been a syllable OS one, and this was purely to make the image creation process instant) with decent hardware and ram from an LXF cover disk, booted into it, then reset it with the XP install disk in the hard drive, installed XP Pro on it and closed/saved/backed up.
I then used that as a basis for multiple VMs with different setups for those windows-only apps. Everything was hunky dory.
If windows XP happily installs and runs on a fairly low-spec machine using nothing more than VMWare player, 2k probably will too.
Ten
Ah yes, one thing I should add to this post is that I did locate and install VMware's tools/drivers for the guest OS.