Re: (no subject)

> Does anyone out there have a preferred approach to virtualizing windows
> installations?
> I am evaluating the latest VMware offering, and I wanted to see if anyone
> cared to feedback on their experience with VMware.
> My experience with the free beta has not been that good (illegal socket
> function during install of 2k3 std virtual machine) so far.
>
I have nothing but love for the VMWare product (the Workstaion branch
anyway). It provides much greater customization than MS's product, and
better support for non-MS OSs (I use it for development purposes -- testing
multi-platform support, so I'm not exactly focused on virtualized windows
installations).

My biggest gripe with VMWare is the opacity of their academic pricing. Back
in the 3.x, 4.x days you could pick up such a license fairly easily,
unfortunately that's not the case anymore. I eventually gave up trying to
get a response from either them or their resellers. Creating a machine with
the trial license of VMWare workstation then "running" on the free Player
works to a point, but the cripled functionality of Player gets in the way a
bit too often.

-Sara

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Received on Tue Apr 18 10:52:58 2006