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Looking for use of a Virtual Machine
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Nose' Feliciano
#1 - 2014-07-18 12:30:45 UTC
I recently installed VMware Player to see how it worked.

Well, I have it working just fine but for one thing..Im looking for a use for it.

So what do you use your Virtual Machines for?

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Mudkest
Contagious Goat Labs
#2 - 2014-07-18 13:53:16 UTC
I used it to play some old games that didnt run on win7. get a virtual machine with win 98 and run games (theme hospital for example) in that Oops
Im sure thats not how its meant to be used, but whatever works right?
Cetus Mira
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-07-18 15:17:29 UTC
Nose' Feliciano wrote:
I recently installed VMware Player to see how it worked


If memory serves, VMWare Player doesn't let you create new VMs; for that you need to get yourself a copy of VMWare Workstation at €225 for a new licence!

Alternatively, why not have a look at VirtualBox, it's free and there are several freely available VM images out there for you to download and have a tinker with Smile Then you can try out various different OSes, dev tools, host a set of "dedicated servers" for web, db, etc.

As for some of the old games, I also make use of DOSBox. Games like Frontier (Elite II) work a treat in that!

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#4 - 2014-07-18 15:22:06 UTC
Cetus Mira wrote:
Nose' Feliciano wrote:
I recently installed VMware Player to see how it worked


If memory serves, VMWare Player doesn't let you create new VMs; for that you need to get yourself a copy of VMWare Workstation at €225 for a new licence!

Alternatively, why not have a look at VirtualBox, it's free and there are several freely available VM images out there for you to download and have a tinker with Smile Then you can try out various different OSes, dev tools, host a set of "dedicated servers" for web, db, etc.

As for some of the old games, I also make use of DOSBox. Games like Frontier (Elite II) work a treat in that!


VMware Player can indeed create new VMs

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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2014-07-18 15:38:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Alpheias
A number of things like AD, domain, web and mail server as well as DNS.

Two Windows Server 2008/2012.
Two Windows clients.
Two Linux clients.

Four homelab VMs where I basically just tinker, learn and ruin stuff.

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Cetus Mira
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2014-07-18 16:31:13 UTC
Commissar Kate wrote:
VMware Player can indeed create new VMs

I stand corrected. Last time I tried it, it required VMs to be created with the Workstation product. Because of that (and I am a cheapskate), I tried VirtualBox and was very happy with that and have been ever sinceBlink

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Matilda Cecilia Fock
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2014-07-18 19:21:40 UTC
We use Virtual Box to run our accounting software on a Windows 2000 VM.

In case you wonder, we still have the Windows 2000 PC, just we don't turn it on any more.

And I was using it until last March. Cool

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