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Quoted from the tutorial site:

VMware Workstation has always been (and still is) a commercial product, and you have to pay a fairly large sum to get your hands on it, but VMware have now released a free application dubbed “VMware Player”, which can run virtual machines produced by VMware and a few other companies. Yet, with some simple hacks, we can use VMware Player to run any x86 Operating System we like.

http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18

Have fun.

I noticed that VirtualPC is a bit sluggish. Is VMWare the same way?

its very memory intensive you need at least 1GB or ram if you're using windows as your Host OS to get any real performance.

Something I've done in the past is create my virtual machines using Microsoft's free Virtual Server R2 (BTW - VirtualPC is also free now) and then run them using VMware Player for better performance. Plus, this way it's all free!

Be cautious. If you do this (run a MS created VM in VMware), then don't keep switching back and forth between VMWare Player and MS VServer. After creation, pick one player and stick with it. I found conflicts with networking when I bounced back and forth.

Hope this helps,
Don

I never saw sluggish even before I went from 512 MB  to 1 GB RAM.

what OS was the VM and how much memory did you give it?

I was running Windows XP as the host on a laptop with 1GB of RAM. I left 512 for the host, 256 for an XP VM and 256 for BackTrack ISO.

Maybe it's me, but it seemed to run better using VMware player.

Don