Virtualbox is pretty decent for that sort of thing but I don't know what the status of that project is since Oracle bought Sun.
Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Paul Boniol <paul.bon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris McQuistion > <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: >> The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and >> you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access >> to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. >> >> Chris >> > > I was in the process of configuring VMware Server when I found that > VMware Server has been declared end-of-line and VMware will drop > support on June 30... I know it works, and I can get it now, and it > sounds like what I need. I'm just not sure I want to learn on > software that won't be available in the future. > > It appears VMware's recommended free version is now VMware Player. > From what I've read it has a quite different modus operandi, > capabilities, etc. > > The machine I plan to install it on is an Intel Core2 vPro processor > (E8500). Evidently it has VT, but it must have been one of the early > chips with VT (default is off). That opens possibilities I didn't > think I had. > > I don't expect to do a lot in Windows, but there are some Windows > programs I just can't completely get away from... > > It will be going over the internet, so security is an issue. I can > tunnel through SSH, etc. as needed. > > Does anyone have a favorite VM in this situation (Linux host, with > Windows as guest)? > > Paul Boniol > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
