Posted by d on 02/15/06 12:02

"Double Echo" <doubleecho@your.com> wrote in message
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> Jim Carlock wrote:
>> "d" <d@example.com> posted:
>>> Another good way to get to grips with it is to use a virtual machine.
>>
>> Would you (or anyone else) be able to recommend a virtual machine?
>> Virtual machine, to me, means a command-prompt with a Unix look
>> and feel, with Unix commands which translate into the MS-DOS
>> equivalents. Is that the same type of Virtual Machine you refer to?
>>
>> Jim Carlock
>> Post replies to the group.
>>
>>
>
> I don't get paid for endorsing software, and don't work for VMware so
> this is not a troll!
>
> VMware 5 workstation is awesome! Download it and try it out it rocks.
>
> I was doing the dual-boot thang on my laptop, and it just got to be
> too disruptive. I needed wireless connectivity via an air-card, ( not
> just 802.11g ) to get out to the net via my Wireless phone company,
> so I could have wireless anywhere. Software isn't available for the
> air-card on Linux, so booting into Linux was ok as long as I could
> find an 801.11g WAN if I wanted wireless access to the net. And then
> it was dealing with email, etc etc. I'd have to go boot back into Windows
> just to get my email, and then back into Linux again, like running a
> submarine or something, now we're back in Linux, no internet, isolated,
> etc etc. It got to be too much, I needed Windows and Linux at the same
> time, on my laptop, so what to do? VMware!
>
> I now have WindowsXP running all my desktop shit, and air-card out to
> the net while at my client site, and VMware running SuSE10, FLAWLESSLY.
> VMware runs my SuSE10 in 256MB of memory!! Is that awesome or what.
> I have 1GB of memory on my laptop so there's room for even another VM
> of another distro, at the same time. And I can "team" them up too,
> some kind of clustering or subnetting thing with VMware I still haven't
> explored.
>
> Cool thing about VMware, it automagically set up the net for me, and
> when I'm in the VM, I can get out to the net, and do all my PHP/Apache
> /MySQL stuff as if I'm on a real server. It's awesome. Until Linux
> gets an air-card that works like a cable-modem, I'm done. I can connect
> to the VM Apache web server from Windows just like it's another server
> out there, and do real PHP programming on Linux, and not have to install
> PHP or Apache on Windows. VMware Workstation is only $189, so it's
> cheaper
> and easier to use that if you'd use MKSToolkit or cygwin, and those
> products
> never really get you the real world, easier to get real Linux in a VM, and
> you're done, no incompatibility issues or any of that shit. Get VMware
> or don't, but I'm telling you it's awesome. The other thing about
> VMware is the "Fit VM Guest Now" function that sizes the desktop to
> your monitor. Too many cool features about VMware, and get this, you
> can share your CD-ROM between the VM and Windows at the same time, as
> well as your Windows disk drives. It is really cool stuff. The price
> is right too, 30-day eval, you can't go wrong.

So couldn't you use the 30-day eval to create the machine, then use the free
player/server to run it? :-P

>

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