Last week I was doing some training for work and while I was waiting on a very slow module to start up I thought "hey I should get vmware workstation since it's free for employees!". Yes, my brain really does have random non-related things pop into it every day.
Thus I went into our corporate employee benefits and found the info, went and registered on the site, downloaded the software then discovered I needed to log into another internal site to request a license.
That began my adventure, I'll cut it short for you.
I setup access on two different sites for managers... which reset my windows login password unknown to me at that time.
I quickly gave up trying to get a license and continued my training and finished up work.
I had a chat shortly after that with a co-worker who suggested I try the vmware player since it's free for everyone and I don't have to jump through endless hoops for a license.
I now have winders 7 and Ubuntu server 10.04 running in vmware player and love it.
It's a massive plus to be able to see how things will go during install and what problems I might have after.
I have been wanting to upgrade my old gentoo outdated install on my server to ubuntu, this has given me a chance to see what I can expect to encounter, what changes need to be made and so on.
Freaking fantastic.
Now if I could only take this current Ubuntu 9.10 install and mirror it to vmware then do an upgrade to see how it would go, off to research that!
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Posted by Muddy at May 26, 2010 11:23 AM