Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2634 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 March 2007, riccardo35@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu 01 Mar 2007 20:52, John Andersen wrote:
> > have customers who run $5000 autocad software inside of vmware on
> > a linux host, but he's a bit of a techno-nerd anyway.
>
> _____________
>
>  - seems to me, that the moment the specialist program gets running on
> VMware . . . it becomes wonderfully 'portable'
>
>  - cloning is a smooth operation : all that is needed is to copy ones
> vmware directory [ say, /opt/vmware  ] to another Drive or Computer
>
>  - this can be done quickly without needing to enter Serial Numbers,
> Passwords & such-like
>
>  . . . it is also handy to be able to take quick 'snapshots' of whole
> VMware machine.
>
> { as a non-techie, it seems to me better to run Windows on a Virtual
> Machine }
>
>
> friendly greetings

Well, that is certainly possible, but in doing that you violate
3 licenses, (at the very minimum).  Vmware, Windows, and Autocad.



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John Andersen