Earlier this week VMware released the 1.0 version of VMware Server. Microsoft followed with releasing Virtual PC 2004 for free. Sometimes competition really does benefit the user!
I have used Virtual PC in the past, though it has been some time ago. I much prefer VMware these days for several reasons. The biggest reason being VMware runs on either Linux or Windows Hosts and the second being that VMware does not shy away from supporting various guest operating systems. And as of today VMware is a much bigger player in the virtual machine market - it is hard to beat their ESX server for enterprise use of virtual machine products. Getting familiar with any of their products should prove useful in the long run.
I installed the VMware Server version today. First time I have run into any sort of issue with the install. With the betas I had just installed one over the top of each other and had no issues. Today it didn’t seem so happy with that. After uninstalling my older version though the install worked very well. All my VMs fired right back up and appear to be working great.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Monday, July 3, 2006
Origins!
Whew! It has been awhile since I have posted here. I have been keeping pretty busy recently and haven’t had much time to keep this place updated.
Spent the past weekend at the Origins Gaming Convention. I took it pretty easy this year and tried not to disappear for four straight days. I still managed to get some decent dealer hall time in. Noticeably missing was Wizards of the Coast. Not even a small booth this year. Frankly I think that is a major slight to their customers. Small publishers from across the continent find funds to make their way to the show, but a big time player in the RPG world can’t make it. I found that pretty lame and probably yet another reason to look at some of the smaller publishers products.
I did play several games - Ptolus (Monte Cook’s longtime world being released in August), Thieve’s World (great time, if only we can get Chris to run it… hint, hint) and an Eberron game run by Keith Baker (the author of the Eberron Campaign Setting). So lots of good times there.
Only a little over a month until Gen Con!
Spent the past weekend at the Origins Gaming Convention. I took it pretty easy this year and tried not to disappear for four straight days. I still managed to get some decent dealer hall time in. Noticeably missing was Wizards of the Coast. Not even a small booth this year. Frankly I think that is a major slight to their customers. Small publishers from across the continent find funds to make their way to the show, but a big time player in the RPG world can’t make it. I found that pretty lame and probably yet another reason to look at some of the smaller publishers products.
I did play several games - Ptolus (Monte Cook’s longtime world being released in August), Thieve’s World (great time, if only we can get Chris to run it… hint, hint) and an Eberron game run by Keith Baker (the author of the Eberron Campaign Setting). So lots of good times there.
Only a little over a month until Gen Con!
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