[PLUG] Virtualization Advice

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Wed Jun 10 19:14:12 UTC 2009


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:49:40 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>    We have a number of virtual ... er, virtualization ... experts here and I
> would like your advice.
> 
>    I'd been a paying customer of VMware since the pre-1.0 beta testing days,
> but I stopped after paying for the VMware-workstation-5.5.3 upgrade. There
> are only 2 Winduhs apps that I run extremely rarely: MapInfo (last upgraded
> 1998) and the Garmin GPS maps for my eTrex unit. Both run on Winduhs 98se.
> I have a vm/ partition with that guest OS installed along with the two apps
> and spatial data.
> 
>    Am I correct in assuming that all I need is the free VMware player, and
> not the server?
> 
>    When I scan the release notes for the latest (2.5.2) player I see only the
> newest Microsoft OS listed, not something as old as 98se. Will the player
> use the existing partition with guest OS and applications?
> 
>    I'm open to suggestions on how to regain access, particularly to MapInfo
> as I will probably need to create some maps in support of a project.

In case you can't get VMWare to run 98SE, Virtualbox will definitely do it.



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