[luau] Re: VMware comments

Ben Timmerman btimmerm at hawaii.edu
Fri Jan 17 22:43:00 PST 2003


My Linux skills are limited to what I've experienced attending Warren's 
seminars and what I've learned from being at the uhunix command line.
I am having VMware installed on the new lapper that I will be receiving 
soon and while I have no experience using it at this point, the links 
sent to me by my brother for background info have served as a great 
tutorial for me and convinced me to buy it.

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What is VMware Workstation?
http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html
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There's a lot of content there.  Brew a pot and be prepared to spend 
some time to parse it all.

It comes as either a Linux or MS utility, I got the Windows one.

Florian sez
> ...But Vmware does (or used too) have a trial version.
According to my brother the trial version still exists.

Warren shared with me that it is a power hog so you really do need 
superior specs as relates to chip, clock speed, RAM, and HD but since 
my new puppy is a P4 2.2 Ghz with a Gig of RAM and a 40 Gb HD, one 
would hope that the fun should begin upon arrival.

One of the neat things that I should be able to do is to simulate 
network operations between the host OS(my machine that VMware is 
installed on) and the various virtual machines(the "guests") that I 
could create with the utility.  While hooked up online, my "network" 
would function as behind a NAT box.  If my connection is through my 
internal wireless setup I may be functionally restricted from some 
classes of applications, probably server oriented ones.

If you're making cross-platform applications, well it's like testing 
your html in IE and Netscape...except now you can also check it in 
Mozilla and what else?  More than I'm aware of.

If you have the power, VMware allows you to avoid the tedium of dual-
boot required if you are constantly shifting back and forth between 
OS's.  If you don't have the power or don't need to be shifting back 
and forth between OS's, there's apparently lots of resources out there, 
including all you luau guys, to help make the dual-boot implementation.

Now, here's the kicker.  VMware is $300+ but if you are 'affiliated' 
with an educational institution(librarys too), you can bid at ebay.  
When I bought mine, the bid was @ about $100/$110, I forget which.  But 
it had one of those "Buy It Now" buttons for $128.99 that I could not 
resist.  Consequently, it got delived to my door for $141.99 including 
s/h.  I see he's increased the shipping to Hawai`i from $13 to $19.  
All I had to do was scan my UH ID and attach it to an email and shazaam!

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VMWARE Workstation 3.2 LINUX NIB VM Ware(2 units available)
price on eBay (educational discount):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=1251&item=2087414663
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VMWARE Workstation 3.2 WIN NIB VM Ware(5 units available)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=1251&item=2301909939
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(You may have to reassemble these links but they will take you directly 
to the item)

The "Buy It Now" price is still $128.99 and it looks like another $19 
s/h.

All for the cause of the Penguin, cya
Ben Timmerman




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