[ Thanks to Andrea W. Cordingly for
this link. ]
“It is indeed reasonable to have virtual machines on home PCs
today, since they are sufficiently powerful and include large
enough disk space. And of course it is easily managed with the
availability of VMware, a virtual machine hypervisor, that can be
installed free of charge for personal use.“Possibly, in the future, Ubuntu GNU/Linux distributions will
make the vmware-server available in its default applications
repositories. Recently, when I installed Ubuntu 7.04, only vmware
player was found; this application allows one to run ready virtual
machines, but not to build one from the installation disks…”
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