Re: Alternative to VMware?

[Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@compsoc.dur.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:59:40PM +0100, Massimiliano wrote:
> Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> 
> >I really want to get a copy of VMware, but I don't have $140 for the 
> >student version. So I'm looking for alternatives. I just want some kind 
> >of sandbox where I can test out new software, distros, etc, without 
> >rebooting into a seperate partition.
> 
> To try some distros you can use user-mode-linux

Seconded... this is better than a chroot-solution as you can run a
different kernel for each distribution.

Shame it doesn't work for bsd's :)

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Jon Dowland
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