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[nycphp-talk] virtualization options...

Michael B Allen ioplex at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 21:34:15 EDT 2009


On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Konstantin K <kkrutoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>
> I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my
> windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run
> various services on it like apache and procmail...
>
> I know these tools (apache and procmail) are available for windows, but I
> *need* a linux instance on my laptop as a virtual machine....
>
> Any suggestions for this?
>
> I went to the VMWare site and couldn't figure out which product I needed -
> they seem to have 4000 products...Any ideas?

VMWare have a number of different free and non-free things but what
you want is called "VMWare Server". Just Google for "VMWare Server
download" and it should be fairly obvious as to what to do from there.

Mike

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