Linux.com: VMX Builder: Create Virtual Machines in Minutes

Written By
DP
Dmitri Popov
Nov 8, 2006

“While VMware Player is not designed to create virtual machines
from scratch, other tools can help you to build your own VMs in a
matter of minutes. You could use VMware’s free VMware Server
software, but it’s overkill if you only need a quick-and-dirty way
to build a VM. Instead, consider VMX Builder, an easy-to-use
desktop tool for creating VMware virtual machines.

“To demonstrate VMX Builder’s capabilities, let’s create an
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) VM…”

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Dmitri Popov

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