> as a computer on your network and getting internet access etc seems to
> work almost automatically. VMWare installs a networking driver on the
> host machine for this which I've found sometimes interferes with other
> network settings, plus getting a VMWare VM to work on a local network
> can be a major PITA.
That's odd, because I've never had that problem myself. VMware does give you
quite a bit of flexibility with network configuration, though, which is one
of the things I like about it. In most cases, I don't want my VMs having
direct access to a real network. VMware lets you set up each VM to bridge to
a real network directly, or to only be available from the host machine, or
to be able to connect to a real network through NAT from the host machine.
> Given the price difference (and the fact that we got 10 Virtual PC
> licences with our last Action Pack) we now use Virtual PC, but if you
> disregarded that and weighed them on their individual merits, it's
> hard to pick between them.
Yeah, we're probably going to do the same thing, honestly. It's hard to
argue with free.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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