on Fri Sep 26 2008, Ryan Gallagher <ryan.gallagher-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
(Okay, I'm a little biased on this...so I'll try to stick to the free products ;-)
As Dave points out, VMware Server is free and works well, but if you just want to run a VM and want something really light try VMware Player.
http://vmware.com/products/player/
It also supports 2-way SMP, and includes "Unity" view so that you can just have your Linux apps appear to be running on your Windows desktop. It's nice for development. If you want to create new VM's, though, you'll want to use VMware server (or Converter to P2V a machine or backup-image, which is built into Player.)
Good point. And you can easily download free pre-built linux VMs so if you're on windows there really shouldn't be any need to create one yourself for testing purposes. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com