

And it’s an excellent choice for beginners.
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It’s bad enough that I’ve switched to VirtualBox. Oracle VM VirtualBox is another cool FREE virtual machine software if you’re looking for an alternative to VMware Workstation. This is on the same physical PCs with fast Core 2 Duos and 3GB/4GB of memory that the VMs ran perfectly fine on under XP.
Log files (vmware.log or
Sadly, in my ongoing tests under Windows 7, VMware performance has taken a major hit from what I experienced under XP.
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VWware supports a wide variety of USB hardware, and allows you to to drag and drop files from the host PC (the PC on which your running VMware Player) to and from the VMs–a feature that has made it a favorite over the years.

After selecting the image file, click on next. In the newly presented screen, select Installer disc image file (iso): option and click on Browse and select the ISO file of Ubuntu or your preferred Linux Distribution from your file system. You had to either download a VM, create one with the free server version, or jump though a lot of hoops with some free utilities to create one. Go to Player > File > New Virtual Machine or press Ctrl + N to create a new virtual machine. Formerly, it was only what its name would indicate–a player of existing machines. VMware Player’s interface is nice-looking, and the program supports many OSs.As of version 3, VMPlayer also lets you create your own virtual machines. But for commercial use, a license is needed. If you are installing for non-commercial use or for Non-profit organizations it’s Free. There are also plenty of VMs (appliances in VMware vernacular) available both at the company’s Web site and other places online. Whether you are installing a virtual machine for school needs or personal needs VMWare is one of the popular Virtual Machines in the market. Like Oracle’s VirtualBox, and unlike Windows XP mode or Microsoft’s free Virtual PC 2007, it will run virtually any operating system ever invented: DOS, Windows 3.1, XP, Linux, Unix, etc. VMware’s free VMware Player is all most users need to enter the world of virtual computing.
