RobynsVeil opened this issue on May 30, 2008 ยท 267 posts
svdl posted Wed, 11 June 2008 at 1:15 AM
Maybe not fully ethical, but definitely fully legal: I used the 30 day trial version of VMWare Workstation to create a series of virtual machines, and now I use VMWare Player (free) to run them.
The pricey stuff from VMWare is mainly their ESX server line, brilliant software, but not what I need for development.
THere's only one major caveat that I found: graphics acceleration. Virtual machines running in VMWare don't benenfit from hardware accelerated graphics. No OpenGL, no DirectX. That might be a major problem.
But that is VMWare. I don't know how VirtualBox or other virtualization software handle OpenGL.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter