On 01/28/2006 05:09 PM email.listen@googlemail.com wrote:
- Using VMWare will bring a lot more problems you might expect. It is _very_ tricky to offer VMWare images for all kinds of Hardware combinations which could be found out there in the wild. From a technical point of view I would rate this as a unresolvable problem.
AFAIK that is no problem, cos VMWare emulates the same hardware on every PC it uses. Except USB where it can use the hosts one, but the rest is the same. AFAIK.
- Last but most, I would assume that using VMWare images will bring a bunch of legal problems according to the use of VMWare. (If not I would expect that there should still be a lot of those 'official' images.)
It starts right now with VMWare releasing the VMWarePlayer, which can "play" vmware files without an installed VMWare. And legal issue is only the software in the image, e.g. flash or acrobat, as was meantioned in the OP. OJ -- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of diseased mind. (Terry Pratchett)