If you’ve wondered what VMWare was like, what it did, and how you could use it, wonder no more. You’ll need two free downloads:
1) VMWare Player 1.0: Open any VMWare virtual machine–for free.
2) Any one of the free VM’s for download at VMWare’s Virtual Machine Center. I tried the Browser Appliance, a customized install of Ubuntu that “enables you to safely browse the Internet from within a VMware virtual machine — protecting your host PC from spyware and malware.” Comes with Firefox and a couple of other utilities–at just under 1GB when uncompressed (~200MB zipped).
Yes, that’s a Terminal Server Client window. A very interesting demonstration of VMWare, a safe way to play with it for a bit, and a pretty convincing exercise in the usefulness of VM’s. This one joins the list of tools on my USB key…
Don’t forget to take a look at the other VM available for free download on that same page. An interesting way to serve up demos.
