[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[David Flood]

The other day I decided to go ahead and get the latest version of VMware 
Player to stop the "there's a new version do you want to get it?" prompt.

Well, you now have to create a userid/password on their site in order to 
download the latest version and, while it has several improvements over 
their last version, it also won't install on older non-PAE cpus (so my 
Dell D600 Centrino is locked out).

I think that VMware has become aware of the popularity and is on the way 
towards shutting down access to the player.  I also don't like the fact 
that older machines that have the horsepower and memory are now locked out.

So, is it time to dump them and go to some other VM system?

Dave
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