VMware Player Beta (Read This!)

[{TBD} ThaBigDogg]

VMware Player let's you run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC. Also, it is very quick and easy to set up. Basically it's a friggen kick ass emulator, that's not illegal.

Here is the Link:
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

VMware gives you an example file of a virtual machine in the following .zip which can be found here:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/browserapp.html (called Browser Appliance)

This is the awesome part a file called browser-appliance.vmx is editable via notepad, what this means is you are able to run ISO images, that acts just like a CD-ROM drive!

So, this means Linux Live CD's can be used on a Windows OS and you can download the Slax or PHLAK ISO files and run Linux it's 100% free and legal!

Here is the HOW-TO guide on editing the browser-appliance.vmx file:
http://pcs.hackaday.com/entry/1234000153064739/

Currently, I am running Slax via the VMware Player window right now....it's awesome!

Some things that are cool:

1. The internet works (while inside of the emulation)
2. Sound works (while inside of the emulation)
3. CPU usage is small (while inside of the emulation)

 

[{TBD} ThaBigDogg]

Does anyone on this forum know wtf I am talking about? Usually you need to pay for a program called VMware Workstation in order to emulate Linux on a Windows PC. VMware Player allows you to do this for free.

 

[furiousV]

It's when you can run several OSes, or several instances of an OS on a single computer.

Microsoft are looking into this for their Windows Updates or something, apparently its gonna save them money or make things more efficient.

Right now, I don't really see why I would need to use this. But thanks

I'll probably look into it in the near future