2009/12/29 Phillip Gawlowski <pg / thimian.com>: > On 29.12.2009 14:25, Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > >> VMWare allows "teams" of virtual machines, which can be set up in their >> own little network. It's something to think about, especially now that >> VMWare Player is available for free and all. > > That's called "[host|internal] networking", and is pretty basic for > virtualization. > > Also: Only VMWare Workstation allows creation of appliances, and I don't > have the 500 bucks to spare. Not true. You can use VMWare Server which is free as well. http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ > Also, VirtualBox is free, and available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. > And it supports the open standard from VM description, so VMware should at > least be able to import it, and I expect KVM and Xen are able to handel the > format as well, if that should ever be necessary. Good point. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/