Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Virtually a new world
So far, so good in my first experiments with desktop virtualization. I'm trying the free VMware Player and Microsoft's also free, and more functional, Virtual PC 2007.
With VMware, functionality is more limited with the free player, although there is a good selection of pre-installed open source desktop and server and it didn't take long to discover EasyVMX, a donation-supported free site offering basic VM creator templates. Using this I was able to install Windows XP in VMware Player - as well as by simply creating a new VM in the more functional MS VPC2007.
Despite making some noises, neither company has yet offered any patch to make its VMs compatible with the other.
I also tried Ubuntu desktop Linux with both VMs. The out-of-the-box Ubuntu .iso install with VPC hung on some corrupted graphics, while WinXP installed perfectly; with VMware, the Windows installation doesn't (yet) have any network connectivity but the Ubuntu image I downloaded works perfectly. Perhaps I can also get a ready-installed Ubuntu image for VPC.
With VMware, functionality is more limited with the free player, although there is a good selection of pre-installed open source desktop and server and it didn't take long to discover EasyVMX, a donation-supported free site offering basic VM creator templates. Using this I was able to install Windows XP in VMware Player - as well as by simply creating a new VM in the more functional MS VPC2007.
Despite making some noises, neither company has yet offered any patch to make its VMs compatible with the other.
I also tried Ubuntu desktop Linux with both VMs. The out-of-the-box Ubuntu .iso install with VPC hung on some corrupted graphics, while WinXP installed perfectly; with VMware, the Windows installation doesn't (yet) have any network connectivity but the Ubuntu image I downloaded works perfectly. Perhaps I can also get a ready-installed Ubuntu image for VPC.
Labels: tech, virtualization
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