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From: "Charli Li" <KBarticle889459 AT aim DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:14:38 -0400
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-----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:04 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old...
>
>
>> Not everyone has a spare test machine.
>
> I can never remember if we are supposed to top-quote or not. But
> here goes:
>
> If you need a spare test machine you should look into the VMWare
> Player.  It is free and allows you to run a Virtual Machine on your
> desktop. Saying: "I don't have a spare machine", these days is red
> herring.  Maybe you can't or won't make the time.  That is something
> else entirely.
>
> Please remember that Cygwin and other projects are largely
> volunteer efforts.
>

VMWare player is only for *PLAYING* VMWare files.  In order to set a VM up
you gotta get VMWare Desktop or VMWare Server, like I have here on my box.
Plus, VMs are much, much slower than normal boxes so it's not really a red
herring if you can't even install the OS on the VM!  For example, I couldn't
even get Windows 2000 Server on the VM to even initilize the text-mode setup
program (WINNT.EXE)!

Charli


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