I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Thanks, Alex On Jun 10, 9:27 pm, "Bill Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who are not aware, I have just discovered that the graphics > performance of VMWare Player is *MUCH* better than that of VMWare > Server. The latter is apparently optimized for disconnected headless > operation and access via a network, and so it uses some heavyweight > remote protocol for all graphics, while the former is optimized for > local, interactive use and basic desktop graphics are quite zippy. > > On the other hand, VMWare Tools doesn't seem to be available under > Player. Fortunately, Player seems to be able to work with VMWare > Tools that were installed under Server. > > Unfortunately Server and Player can't both be installed at the same > time. And Player can't create new VM's. So maybe the best bet is to > install Server first, create any new VMs you want to create, set them > up with the VMWare Tools, then switch to VMWare Player to get the > improved graphics performance. VMWare Player can use the vm's created > by Server just fine. > > --bb > > On 6/10/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual > > Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython > > installed. > > > This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare > > Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from > >http://www.vmware.com/products/player/and > >http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ > > > The download URL is: > >http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20... > > > The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will > > share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is > > 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b. > > > I have updatedhttp://scipy.org/Downloadwith this information. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Numpy-discussion mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
