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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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.