This small guide will show you how to use VMware Server on your Ubuntu 8.04 installation, in case you encountered some issues. This will also work for VMware Workstation 6.5 beta.
1. Download VMware Server 1.0 to your home folder
2. Download the patch file vmware-any-any-update-117.tgz to your home folder.
3. Extract the Vmware-server-1.0.6-xxxxxx.tar.gz to your home folder [...]
The Wine project started in 1993 as a way to support running Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Bob Amstadt was the original coordinator, but turned it over fairly early on to Alexandre Julliard, who has run it ever since. Over the years, ports for other Unixes have been added, along with [...]
VirtualBox 1.6.0 (released 2008-04-30)
Sun xVM VirtualBox is an X86 virtualization software package originally developed by German software company Innotek GmbH, now a product of Sun’s xVM family, suitable for both enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only [...]
Here comes the long anticipated Wine 1.0 RC1:
This is release 1.0-rc1 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.0. Please give it a
good testing to help us make 1.0 as good as possible. In particular
please help us look for apps that used to work, but don’t [...]
Modern Warfare’s single player campaign unfolds, the player is introduced to new gameplay at every turn – one moment you are fast-roping from your Black Hawk helicopter after storming into the war zone with an armada of choppers, the next you are a sniper, under concealment, in a Ghillie suit miles behind enemy lines, the [...]
After nearly 15 years of development, the WINE project is scheduled for the landmark 1.0 release. As with most open source programs, it is hard to sit back and say “ok it’s done”. The work will always continue, but at some point the program at least accomplishes the original, or in this case, realistic goal. [...]
Android is a newly released software stack for mobile devices from Google that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. It’s open source and based on the Linux kernel and on version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as [...]
If you’re like most people, you probably named VMware or Xen first. Many of you probably know of one or more of the following: Parallels, QEMU, KVM, Virtuozzo and OpenVZ. However, few of you probably know about VirtualBox. And chances are if you know about VirtualBox 1.502, you’re already running it because it manages the [...]
VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines—no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required.
As I had VMware Workstation running on all my previous *SUSE [...]
This is major news for the virtualisation field as 3D acceleration has been the one area where there has not been much progress.
Introducing VMGL, which provides OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines. It is a program that you install in both the host and guest and allows for virtualizing the OpenGL functions. When tested [...]
Latest VirtualBox 1.4 was released on June 5th, and it is the youngest virtualization player. If you are not aware of this products, VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use and is available both as open source under the GPL and under a commercial license which, [...]
Причины необходимости настройки DB2 9 на виртуальной машине могут быть различны. Например, потребуется объединить серверы для полного использования оборудования, уже купленного компанией. Или, возможно, при настройке среды тестирования потребуется полностью изолировать производственную среду. Или же вам требуется протестировать старые приложения на новых операционных системах.
В таких ситуациях данная статья может оказаться полезным справочным пособием. Здесь будет [...]
Computer gaming is nothing new. Even in the earliest days of computing, we began to see an immediate desire to run games. In 1951, the NIMROD computer was built with the sole purpose of playing the game of NIM. Some twenty years later, we began to see growth of games on both PCs and consoles. [...]
Six months since first announcement, VMware finally release newest version of its most popular product.VMware Workstation 6 has arrived with support for the company’s open paravirt-ops, a virtualization performance optimizer, which as of the 2.6.20 kernel, is now part of Linux.
According to the company, paravirtualized Linux operating systems are modified operating systems specifically optimized to [...]
Linux® and flexibility go hand in hand, and the options for virtualization are no different. But recently, a change in the Linux virtualization landscape has appeared with the introduction of the Kernel virtual Machine, or KVM. KVM is the first virtualization solution to be part of the mainline Linux kernel (V2.6.20). KVM supports the virtualization [...]
VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines—no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required.
As I had VMware Workstation running on all my previous SUSE [...]
coLinux is a great way to use and experiment with Linux. Like Cygwin, it allows you to develop and execute Linux applications on the Windows operating system (through coLinux). You can also maintain the Linux operating system by installing, [...]
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (”virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the [...]
Though each CrossOver Linux (formerly known as CrossOver Office) release offers substantial improvements, version 6.01 is the most revolutionary release I have seen since I started reviewing this product circa version 3.0. Many important new programs are supported, but the real news is not in the number of programs supported, but also their purpose: World [...]
This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system (XP, 2003, 2000, NT4 SP4+) into a VMware virtual machine with the free VMware Converter Starter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server, and also in VMware Workstation and other VMware products. Vmware Converter comes in [...]
CodeWeavers this month announced version 6.0 of its flagship Windows compatibility product. Now called CrossOver Linux, the new version is the first with official support for games. With its growing application support and foray into gaming, CrossOver Linux 6 is an excellent alternative for Linux users who are stuck with a Windows application at work [...]
As of 9th January:
CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading Windows-to-Linux software developer, today announced the release of CrossOver Linux 6.0, its latest upgrade to the number one product for running Windows applications natively within the Linux operating system. Incorporating substantially improved support for many popular games, including World of Warcraft and many Steam titles (such as [...]
Worked for me on a Compaq Presario with a 5007 in 64 bit Hardy. I needed to add... dai_vernon | July 8, 2008 | More >>
I have a advent t2370 bought from pc world who no longer sell xp machines... David Murphy | July 8, 2008 | More >>
This would be much nicer if compiled with sunstudio cc, so you could... Brian Szymanski | July 8, 2008 | More >>
i need help, it didn’t work, i have an ati radeon x1300/1500, 256 mb of... Steven | July 7, 2008 | More >>
Thank you very much. This was a great help. grot | July 7, 2008 | More >>
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