VMWare

I have always heard about VMWare, but never had the chance to play with it. The new (free) VMWare player enables me to run a VM session in the desktop environment without installing anything other than the VMWare player.

I downloaded Debian, Puppy, SLES10 with KDE and a browser package to play with. It's so easy to start another operating system. Simply start the VMWare player, point to the virtual machine config file, and the o/s boot up.

While you run the virtual machine as packaged, it's an extraordinarily fast path to explore new images and distros. The longest part of the whole process is downloading the VM image.