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

[Chester Wisniewski]

Jeremy Leonard wrote:

> 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:
>>  
>>
>>> 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).
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Yes.  What "free player"?  If you mean WINE, then you'll have 
>>>> burned up
>>>> $200 in time pretty quickly.
>>>>     
>>>
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Is there really something wrong with buying commercial software rather 
than manipulating the license agreement? We aren't too happy when 
commercial software developers ignore/manipulate GPL licenses....