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VMWare is "wrinkle" free
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"Here's another wrinkle: some software, during installation, records what amounts to the hardware fingerprints of the computer it's running on to counter piracy, while other packages require a hardware "dongle" to be attached. So there are serious constraints to shuttling virtual machines around with abandon."

I have been running VMWare Workstation 5.5 on my Fedora Core 6 laptop. Windows 2000 runs as a guest as well as some other VMs I keep around. The W2K VM is my bet against Vista as I won't touch that ever and I will need to use Windows only apps for the foreseeable future.

I run several proprietary engineering and development apps in the W2K machine. Some of these require activation and some even require USB dongles.

ALL OF THESE have run without a problem and are even portable, meaning they can be "played" on other host systems with VMWare Player or Workstation.

Virtualization offers many advantages and is well worth the time and effort to learn how to use its advantages. Just start with something worth the learning curve. VMWare was not at all difficult to learn or use. You can even get a 30 evaluation key for Workstation from them in order to test the "waters" so to speak.

I did and I had no problem using it or buying it after half of the eval time was up.
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Posted by: jacarter3   Posted on: 04/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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VMWare is "wrinkle" free  jacarter3 | 04/19/07

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