For those who are not aware, I have just discovered that the graphics performance of VMWare Player is *MUCH* better than that of VMWare Server. The latter is apparently optimized for disconnected headless operation and access via a network, and so it uses some heavyweight remote protocol for all graphics, while the former is optimized for local, interactive use and basic desktop graphics are quite zippy.
On the other hand, VMWare Tools doesn't seem to be available under Player. Fortunately, Player seems to be able to work with VMWare Tools that were installed under Server. Unfortunately Server and Player can't both be installed at the same time. And Player can't create new VM's. So maybe the best bet is to install Server first, create any new VMs you want to create, set them up with the VMWare Tools, then switch to VMWare Player to get the improved graphics performance. VMWare Player can use the vm's created by Server just fine. --bb On 6/10/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual > Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython > installed. > > This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare > Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from > http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ and > http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ > > The download URL is: > http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20computing%20in%20Python.zip > > The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will > share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is > 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b. > > I have updated http://scipy.org/Download with this information. > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
