From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 03:24:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B47E37B401 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 03:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C56743F75 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 03:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 13 May 2003 11:24:23 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 19FWx6-0007hr-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 11:24:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:24:07 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Fabio Miranda Hamburger In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Vmware Misc questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 10:24:42 -0000 On Mon, 12 May 2003, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: > Hi, I am running 4,8-stable and I installed vmware. > I have to following qwuestions. > 1. vmware asks me for a license of the version and tell me to place it in > .vmware directory with a filename license, Where Can I get that lincese? > If I type www.vmweare.com/license_linux I go to a vmware store and I want > to use the free license if possible. vmware's a commercial product. > 2. I want to emulate Windows XP, where do i have to place the instalation > files? VMware can be configured to enable the virtual machine to utilise your CD drive just like it belonged to the virtual machine; so you sohuld just be able to boot off your windows XP install CD. > 3. What are the init files of vmware? where can i place configuration > variables? It's got a GUI configuation tool built in; each virtual machine also has an editable .ini file in its associated directory. For some things you need to edit this file (eg, fixing the vm's mac address) > 4. where can i get information about vmware on linux?, vmware.com just > looks like a comercial site, very far from opensource philosophy. however, > vmware is such a big usefull system. Useful enough to pay cash for? If so, you need to buy a license. Otherwise, you probably want to explore alternatives such as Wine or Plex86. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Ever see something and think, "I've gotta leverage me some of that?" Odds are, you were looking at a synergy and didn't even know it.