Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig Niederberger wrote:
> *Yes*.  My EECS students prefer to run linux inside vmware, as they
> typically have laptops with single drives.

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> What VMware does very right is that it allows you to easily move virtual
> machines, in the form of images, from one machine to another.

I heard from a professor that the concept of offering server machines loaded 
with gEDA and such was a dead issue because of VMware's market share and 
popularity for avoiding installation time, and just using huge areas of disks
as tools.  I suppose some people might have 5 or so disk images they use in 
order to avoid integrating it all and getting 5 tools/entertainment_programs 
that way.  Is that a good guess?

Is VMware's emulation now THAT good, that the usual 2GHz+ hardware has no 
trouble with it?  and they offer a freebie now?  (If you get someone else's image)

How many images can run at once with "Player"?
Is that their marketing ploy?  If you want real convenience, you need a VMware 
license?

John G


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