On Friday 27 July 2007 09:01, Richard Creighton wrote:
Chris Worley wrote:
Doesn't VMWare have a 30 day trial?
Use it to create a Win3.1 appliance, then use the appliance w/ VMWare.
VMWare SERVER is FREE forever and doesn't need the player and distributing an appliance with win3.1 on it is probably illegal if distributed but VMWare SERVER is free and legal and he can put his legal copy of Windoze on it an run his old 16 bit apps under Linux while still running other Linux spps at the same time. The player is simply not a very good idea in most cases IHMO, not when Server VMware is available...assuming you are non-commercial. If you are doing it commercially, get the Workstation version and pay the license fee which is well worth it.
I agree with most of this, though the player concept is valuable for people packaging stand-alone solution environments. It's just not a good choice when the end user needs to control and configure the system that is to be virtualized. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org