{"id":158,"date":"2006-03-22T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/community-built-vms-for-vmware-player\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:38:31","slug":"community-built-vms-for-vmware-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/community-built-vms-for-vmware-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Community built VMs for VMWare Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are unaware, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">VMWare<\/a>  offers the free VMWare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/player\/\" target=\"_blank\">player<\/a>. It&#8217;s an ok way to bridge the gap between not having any virtualization and a full-blown VMWare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/ws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workstation<\/a>. There are only a limited number of pre-built Virtual Machines for VMWare player from the VMWare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/vmtn\/appliances\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackaday.com\/entry\/1234000153064739\/\" target=\"_blank\">instructions<\/a>  online on how to install a new OS in VMWare Player, but of course that means that you can&#8217;t install VMWare Tools.<\/p>\n<p>The better solution (for the short term) is to allow those who have a full VMWare Workstation installed to create virtual machines for use in the player. Riding to the rescue on this front is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmwarez.com\/2006\/01\/vmwarezcoms-pre-built-vms-for-player.html\" target=\"_blank\">vmwarez.com<\/a>  &#8211; a site that offers prebuilt virtual machines of Open Source OSes for use in VMWare Player. And I see that there are finally some community built <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/vmtn\/appliances\/community.html\" target=\"_blank\">machines<\/a>  showing up on the VMWare site now, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I would, however, still recommend getting VMWare Workstation as soon as you can. It is more than worth it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are unaware, VMWare offers the free VMWare player. It&#8217;s an ok way to bridge the gap between not having any virtualization and a full-blown VMWare Workstation. There are only a limited number &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[178,155],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-os","tag-community","tag-os"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-2y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}