Dwight Johnson wrote:
Look at VMWare. The VMWare server product is free at the moment and
allows you to setup as many VMs as you want. It allows the VM to have
access to network resources through a sort of 'virtual NIC' concept
which has worked well for me - it even lets the VM get it's own IP on
the network, even going so far as to allow the VM to do DHCP and get
an address that way. It should work no matter what the underlying
network truly is. (Note that the VM doesn't actually have control of
the network card - windows does, and VMWare does stuff underneath to
make it all look right to the VM).
VMWare also lets the VM get to the CD or DVD-rom drive, or lets you
pretend an iso is a real disc.
VMWare seems to have many flavor, tersely described. Which specific
VMWare product are you referring to here?
VMware server is the free version that lets you create and modify your
VM guest images. Player is also free but it only permits running
existing VMs. Workstation is not free but has several extra tricks like
being able to make multiple snapshots within an image that you can
revert to if you want to undo subsequent changes.
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Les Mikesell
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