Robert Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philippe Lhoste wrote: > > ... > > VMWare is payware, no? Isn't Virtual PC now a MS product, freely > > available? Would be better. > > Yes and no. Their "ESX" (enterprise) stuff costs serious money, and > their "Workstation" line costs some money, but their former "GSX" > (group-level) product "VMware Server" is FREE, and has been for more > than a year. They also offer their "VMware Player" for free, which is > something like an incomplete version of Workstation" - it just *runs* > virtual images, but doesn't create them... of course, there are *ways*. ;) > > In any case, both the MS lineup and the VMware one have their > strengths and weaknesses (I actually still have a paid-for copy of VPC > around somewhere), but "VMware Server" is free and is easily up to the > task of testing this type of software on multiple OS versions and > releases (as Neil was suggesting).
The trick with VMWare Server is that it really likes to not work for some users (I could only get to use it perhaps once every 5 times I tried). On the other hand, VirtualBox has worked great for me every time I tried it, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even better: it's open source! - Josiah _______________________________________________ Scintilla-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scintilla-interest
