{"id":13,"date":"2005-10-19T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intr.overt.org\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-10-19T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T00:07:02","slug":"vms-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"VMs for everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, as part of our VMworld 2005<\/a> festivities, we announced our VMware Player<\/a>. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines. People who’ve been participating in the Workstation 5.5 beta programme<\/a> will have already seen it in its bundled form, but now you can get it as a stand-alone product. We’ve also released a special Browser Appliance<\/a> virtual machine that’s based on Ubuntu Hoary<\/a> featuring Firefox, so if you’ve been waiting for an excuse to checkout our virtualisation technology, grab the player and the VM and try it out. There are also a number of other VMs hosted at VMTN<\/a>, and that collection should grow with time. If anyone has, or wants to, put together a VM and have it show up on VMTN, give me a yell. Obviously, you do need Workstation<\/a> or one of our server products to create VMs.<\/p>\n

On a personal note, the Linux player has been my primary project for the last few months, so this one is near and dear to my heart. \ud83d\ude42 It’s been a lot of fun to work on and I hope you all take a chance to check it out; there are a lot of obvious comparisons with Acrobat Reader, but I hope that the player won’t provoke the sort of reviews<\/a> that the latest version of Acrobat Reader did \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

For people paying attention to libview<\/a>, the player is also a little bit of a showcase as it uses the Drawer, Tooltip and Spinner widgets.<\/p>\n

Although the language hasn’t been finalised yet, do expect to see sane redistribution terms show up by the final release; this is actually a beta, even though the website seems to neglect to say so, which was a bit surprising.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Edit: I’m getting a flood of comment spam on this post, so I’m disallowing comments to it. (2\/2\/06)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we announced the VMware Player – it’s free, so go check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-joy-of-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.intr.overt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}