[Quantian-general] Run Quantian iso via the free VMware Player on Windows or Linux

[Gary]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>Tom Short had emailed me about his success in running the Quantian 0.7.9.1
>iso alongside Windows XP on his laptop.  This uses the 'free as in beer'
>VMware Player which is available for Windows and Linux "hosts". 
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A question while downloading:  quantian.vmx has a lot of address info in 
it.  Do these need to be customized to suit my machine?
If so, which entries? and what are they asking for?

I find the VMware site hard to navigate.  Couldn't even find a mention 
of vmx files.

(Maybe this will be obvious when I try it, but it's sure to be a FAQ  :)   )


>So far, I only had time for a brief trial on my (Kubutu) Linux desktop which
>I summarised in a short post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/
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>I had this set up in literally a few minutes, and ended up with 
> - two emulated Quantian sessions, each at 256mb on a 1gb desktop 
> - these suspend ram to a diskfile on exit and "rebooted" instantly to the
>   exact same state -- very nice feature
> - offer cdrom, soundcard, usb 2.0 and networking, I only tried networking
>   which worked like a charm (fast webbrowsing etc)
> - I tried openMosix between two instances but no real success there; this 
>   may require some work on the networking configuration.
>
>I had one inquiry regarding Windows as a host, and I'd love to get feedback
>on that. My goal is two new short Quantian HOWTOs for Linux and Windows, and
>I will need help on the Windows part.
>
>Cheers, Dirk
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