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January 28, 2009

ReactOS

ReactOS

Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.

(Okay, not really their fault! I chose to "upgrade" their demo VM when VMware prompted me. If you don't do that, it works OK)

(Also, the video is sped up by Flickr. Bug reported here.)

ReactOS

Man, those ReactOS developers have really done a stellar job of replicating the Windows NT fundamentals.

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June 16, 2007

VMware Fusion Overview

If you don’t already own Parallels Desktop, the new VMWare beta is great — I far prefer “Unity” to “Coherence” for mixing Windows apps on the OS X desktop. Only $40 if you buy before the official release at the end of August.

February 13, 2007

ChipLog: VMware Workstation 6.0 beta 3

Wow, Record/Replay sounds useful. Similar to the Java Omniscient Debugger, but capturing the whole machine state. Looks like VMWare are doing a good job of differentiating their free and pay-for versions.

September 8, 2006

Joel on Software: Installing Vista RC1 in VMWare Workstation

This gotcha caught me out too when I was trying to experiment with Vista RC1. Bloody Microsoft.

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February 8, 2006

VMWare Server

Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I’m almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work — Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machine. Also gets around the “You can’t create an image” limitation of the free VMWare Player app.

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October 27, 2005

Why you should try VMWare's free virtual machine runtime

I’ve been gabbling excitedly for the last week to anyone in earshot about what a big deal I think the free VMWare Player is. Here’s some more great arguments for it.

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October 24, 2005

How-to: VMware player modification

Use the free VMWare Player to *create* virtual machines.

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October 21, 2005

VMware Player

This has great potential. VMWare have a free “player” allowing anyone to run pre-built virtual machines.

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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.