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This YouTube video showing off VMware Player blew me away. The start of the video shows the EasyVMX.com web site, so I am assuming the author created the various VMs he is showcasing with EasyVMX.The video demonstrates using multiple sessions of the VM Player running Windows and Linux on the same desktop. The file drag and drop feature between host and guest VMs is also demonstrated nicely.

What really amazed me was that the author’s pc for this computer has the following hardware:

Intel C2D 4300@2700

2GB DDR2 667

Nvidia 7900GS

Here’s the link to the video and the discussion on YouTube.com
YouTube – VMware player 2.0 on Ubuntu 7.04

So, you need to build a new VM. You don’t have a license for VMware Workstation? You don’t want to install VMware Server on your desktop? You realize the free VMware server is only supported on a few server operating systems, right? WinXP or Vista is not supported (you can make it work, but that’s another post for another time).

In my experience, the simplest solution has been to Read the rest of this entry »