Free VMWare Player

I just noticed this new feature in VMWare:
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html

VMware Player gives you greater flexibility in distributing virtual machines.

VMware Player is a free desktop application that lets you run a virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player provides an intuitive user interface for running preconfigured virtual machines created with VMware Workstation, GSX Server, and ESX Server. On Windows hosts, the player also opens and plays Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery system images. VMware Player makes your VMware virtual machines accessible to colleagues, partners, customers, and clients who do not own VMware products.

And the main page for vmware says "Free VMWare Player" at the top. However, I have had a hard time finding the product.

It seems possible that this product could allow us greater flexibility in deploying JNode in a non-invasive way, or for demos, or maybe even for developers (without full VMWare). Maybe someone with VMWare can create a virtual machine to run in player?

Wouldn't it be great for someone to test jnode, they just download a VMWare Player, preconfigured to start jnode?

online build of vmx file + empty disks

I found an online tool called vmxform that can generate vmx files.

here, you can also find empty disk whose size is 10Gb, 20Gb, and 500M (search for "Empty 10GB Disk", "Empty 20GB Disk", "Empty 500M Disk" in the page).

When JNode installer will be ready, we should provide vmware disk with JNode pre-installed.

Fabien

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VMPlayer files generated by build

The build process of JNode now generates vmware player files for the cd targets.

See /all/build/cdroms directory.

Ewout

Works Great

I used the .vmx file outputted by the normal build process with the free VMWare player, and it worked perfectly. This will be my preferred means of test/debugging now.

VMWare Player Released

VMWare Player was released this morning. Remember it is free (just requires someone with VMWare Workstation to build the virtual machine.) The link is at:

http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

Hopefully this can make life easier for JNode developers without VMWare Workstation, or for users to quickly, easily and non-invasively test JNode.

Please submit Virtual Machine configs

Can someone with VMWare make a Virtual Machine and send it to me by email, then I'll publish it so everyone can use it.

This sounds great!

Ewout

Useful?

So... what if someone, who has VMWare Workstation 5.5, makes a virtual machine, which contains something that would boot JNode over the net. So anyone could use that machine and a local server to start, run and develop JNode with VMWare Player. Is this feasible?

Run the jnode-x86-0.2.6.iso.vmx

I'm not able to run the latest vmx inside vmware player. it says it can not find jnode-x86-0.2.6.iso. I have put both vmx and iso files in the same directory. I belive it should be path problem so what kind of directory structure I should have?

Run the jnode-x86-0.2.6.iso.vmx

I'm not able to run the latest vmx inside vmware player. it says it can not find jnode-x86-0.2.6.iso. I have put both vmx and iso files in the same directory. I belive it should be path problem so what kind of directory structure I should have?

Please download the

Please download the jnode-x86-0.2.6.iso.vmx file again, the problem should be fixed now.

vmware recently released a

vmware recently released a free server, which I have started to look at. It can create new virtual machines.

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