On Friday 27 July 2007 09:01, Richard Creighton wrote: > Chris Worley wrote: > > Doesn't VMWare have a 30 day trial? > > > > Use it to create a Win3.1 appliance, then use the appliance w/ > > VMWare. > > VMWare SERVER is FREE forever and doesn't need the player and > distributing an appliance with win3.1 on it is probably illegal if > distributed but VMWare SERVER is free and legal and he can put his > legal copy of Windoze on it an run his old 16 bit apps under Linux > while still running other Linux spps at the same time. The player > is simply not a very good idea in most cases IHMO, not when Server > VMware is available...assuming you are non-commercial. If you are > doing it commercially, get the Workstation version and pay the > license fee which is well worth it.
I agree with most of this, though the player concept is valuable for people packaging stand-alone solution environments. It's just not a good choice when the end user needs to control and configure the system that is to be virtualized. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
