[KLUG Members] IBM T30, SuSE 10.0, and Windows apps

[Jeremy Leonard]

Actually there are several sites that will tell you how to create a 
VMWare image using dd and vi.
You can also download the evaluation version of the full product. Create 
several VMs and then use player to use them after the trial expires.

Also you could download the VM referred to below and install windows on it.



Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:36 -0500, Chris Hansen wrote:
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>>VMWare has recently released a free (as in beer) "player" of virtual 
>>machine disk images.  It can run images created with VMWare workstation, 
>>Microsoft Virtual PC, and several others IIRC.  I installed it and gave 
>>it a once over, seems pretty slick.  Sample images are available for 
>>download such as an Ubuntu system with Firefox (meant to be used as a 
>>sandboxed browser.. works pretty well especially if you suspend your 
>>sessions rather than waiting for the guest OS to boot into X and start 
>>Firefox each time).
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>Right, but this is completely useless in regards to Windows.  To use
>Windows in a VM you need the ability to create a VM - into which you can
>install your properly licensed Windows OS and applications.
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>>Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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>>>Yes.  What "free player"?  If you mean WINE, then you'll have burned up
>>>$200 in time pretty quickly.
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