This brief blog entry will note the steps to set-up (re-install) VMPlayer (VMWare Player) on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software product from VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of EMC Corporation. Player can run guest virtual machines produced by other VMware products; it cannot itself create new virtual machines. VMware provides free virtual disk images of several pre-configured operating systems and applications, many of them community-contributed. Freeware tools and websites (such as EasyVMX) also exist for creating VMs, mounting, manipulating and converting VMware disks and floppies, permitting users to create, run and maintain virtual machines free of charge (even for commercial use). Read more

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This brief blog entry will note the steps, reason, & links I followed to install VMWare Tools in a Windows XP Guest without using VMWare Workstation. The host machine is Ubuntu Linux and the application being used is plan ol' FREE VMWare Player (VMPlayer). Read more

I don't typically post images here on Czarism, yet after a couple of hours tweaking around with my system the result is worth showing. The following image is my of my main system; Compaq Presario Laptop, Ubuntu Linix, Gnome, @ Windows XP (Barely Naked) powered by VMWare Player. All this on a Celeron 1.6 w/ 528MB of Ram. 8-)Read more