[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[Ray Wells]

Have a look at Virtual Box. You can download it from their website as a 
package for many Linux varieties.. I use it here to run WinXP Pro in a 
VB under Kubuntu 9.10. It's great.

Ray vk2tv

David Flood wrote:
> 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
> KD7MYC
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