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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">What a great idea. I have already started playing with MS VPC. Out of interest, it seems that with VMWARE Player you need VMWare Server. Is this what yu are using with this product?
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<div>With VMWare player, you need to have a virtual machine 'image' already; the player just plays it. This can be created with VMWare server (I've had a bit of play with this; it's also free), but there are a number of free applications which do this - in fact there is little more to the VM apart from a text file defining how to map the hardware - see
<a href="http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html">http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html</a>, or <a href="http://rhysgoodwin.orcon.net.nz/vmxwizard/">http://rhysgoodwin.orcon.net.nz/vmxwizard/
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<div>The main differences seems to be that VPC lets you create undo disks to revert the VM back to a previous state (could be very useful). Though saving the state of a VMWare machine and running a copy acheives the same. On the other hand, I couldn't find a way in VPC to use CD images (ISOs) as virtual drives, making it a pain to use in labs where computer don't have optical drives.
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<div>Apparently the paid-for VMWare apps (Desktop I think) have some other really cool features - like 'undo disks' on steriods - letting you undo and redo multiple trees or something like that. But I'll have to be content with the free ones... and really, they probably have enough functionality to do most things.
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