[olug] free* VMWare player

Hurley Rod RHurley at TMVGAS.COM
Wed Feb 1 14:18:28 UTC 2006


The OS on the the virtual machine has a completely different
address/path/location.  It is just one big folder of goodies. Viruses
treat the virtual machines as separate machines.  They have different
macs, IP's, system files and even have their own dedicated drivers.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Rob Townley
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:31 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: [olug] free* VMWare player

i don't know how many of you knew this, but there is a free* VMWare
Player along with many premade ready to download virtual machine
images.  The VMWare can be a host on a Linux or Win platform and have
Linux and Win guests.  Won't be able to check it out till i get to a
faster connection.   I still want to support QEMU.org, but this player
sounds easy enough for Grandma.  i like their idea of a "Browser
Appliance" virtual machine, but i still do not see it protecting
against a keystroke logger app running on the host OS.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/

*not free speech free
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