Free VMWare Player
Interesting concept - VMWare have released a free lightweight (28Mb) distribution of their virtual machine engine that just plays pre-built OS distributions. Nice way for vendors to distribute demos/trials of their software, and I’m sure big shops will use it internally to run old machine images.
I must give it a spin at the weekend, their browser appliance virtual machine is probably worth a look for the hell of it. From what I gather it contains a stripped down Ubuntu Linux withFirefox, GAIM, BitTorrent, and a Terminal Server Client.
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Looks very very interesting. I’d like to see if they’ll release it under a license that allows redistribution, first.
Also, it’s still not open source, so if they get bored with the idea of supporting a free player sometime down the line, anyone using it will be just as shit-out-of-luck as if it was a payware product.
Agreed on the licenses, although I think VMWare are under commercial pressures (from MS and others) that means they’d probably never be able to charge again for the player. Perhaps they’re next step is to give it away free (as in beer).
The player is definately getting noticed - Minix3.0 got released today @
http://www.minix3.org/ and they are providing a “VM installed with Minix 3″ (http://cd.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_1_small_vmware.zip)
Sweet…