Start a virtual PC with Linux Ubuntu 5.10 in 5 minutes

In order to give a strong boost to the techniques of virtualization is to make a mass phenomenon, VMware has recently changed its policy of distributing software for free is beginning to distribute its flagship product, VMware Server is a light version called VMware Player .

The main difference between the server version and the player is essentially the fact that the latter is only able to start a virtual machine pre-existing and pre-configured while the server version allows creating and installing from scratch, with can also vary hardware parameters of the virtual machine.

But since the site already exists at VMware also a section on "Virtual Appliance" that already makes available a large number of virtual machines ready for use, and because of me not to have special needs when the configuration I wanted to opt for 'installation plus simple player that is lighter and less intrusive.

So I downloaded the setup file of VMware Player (at the time of writing this is VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.exe) and the zip file containing the virtual machine of Ubuntu 5.10 Linux.

A download is complete run the setup and I just unpacked the zip, VMware Player, only requires the opening to indicate the position of the virtual machine to start and that's it: I was able to attend the boot an operating system Linux inside Windows XP thanks to the power of VMware virtual machine! Think about that for network connectivity did not have to do anything: VMware automatically installs a virtual network adapter that is configured in bridging with the existing physical PC.