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Virtualization: Don't we all need labs?



This blogger needed to learn about security and hacking. So he turned to VMware's VMware Player. Well there are lots of things you can do with the free VMware Server as well. Loads of them. I have personally lab enviroment where I cook (including the heavily downloaded Avastu Appliances) loads of appliances. Convert them for different formats (like Vmware Workstation etc) with VMware Converter and send them over to various clients (users, external developers etc).

Anyways this blogger too describes how he turned to VMware for his lab testing...

One of the tools I use is called VMware Player, a FREE application that allows you to run predefined virtual guests, which can also be downloaded for FREE. All the FREE virtual machines offered are obviously open source. VMware Player can be played on Windows 2000 Pro and Server, Windows XP Home and Pro, and also Windows Server 2003. It can also be played on various flavours of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Ubuntu Linux.


Check it out here and here.
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