Re: VMWare player

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Paul,

This has been around for some time, but I am not sure that using it is a
good idea. You lose the controls that the basic player has, such as easy
access to Ctrl-Alt-Del, one click suspend, Unity mode, etc. You have to
use command-line controls to manage the machine. After all you can start
directly an XP program, e.g. NB9, from a Win 7 Start menu link in Unity
mode. I think this is even better.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> However I have only today discovered a utility that comes with the
> player called VMWare-KVM.EXE which can launch a virtual machine
> without the usual toolbar and which allows a single key to toggle
> between the virtual machine and the host. It has some limitations
> such as not allowing the virtual machine to use multiple monitors but
> it seems to offer a much cleaner way of running virtual machines than
> launching them from the player or from a shortcut.