[WBEL-users] VMWare

[Luke Scharf]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 12:00, Scott Silva wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone for their advice and tips.  I'm sitting at about 1.7G
> > free right now, so any sort of  experimentation that requires a full
> > install of Windows would require me removing my Windows partition (10GB)
> > and reinstalling Linux.  I'll probably end up waiting until I can
> > acquire a bigger hard drive.  :)
[snip]
> You could run VMWare and use that 10 gig windows partition, you wouldn't
> need to do much to make it work.

It's easier to just use the virtual disk files.  Sure, they take up a
lot of space in $HOME, but you can "tar -zcvf mymachine_baseline_`date
-I`.tar.gz mymachine.vmare" and be able to come back to it later.  Saves
a lot of effort if you're using VMWare to experiment with stuff -- or if
you just need single-purpose Windows machines.

-Luke