On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:56:42AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
John R. Dennison wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 04:09:47PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote:
If so, I can un-subscribe from the list.
Please point out the search result that will solve his problem if it is so easy for you... Or if you can't, please avoid polluting future searches with non-answers.
Just to point out though, that the first query did seem like an elementary one that could have easily been solved--the onus, in this case, is probably on the OP, but at any rate....
VMware on the best machine you have and run the OS in question as a guest. In many cases you can find an image already installed that you can just download and run under VMware player. If you have to build your own, you'll probably want the latest version of vmware server 1.x that you can find (the 2.x versions have a problem running under Red Hat or Centos and nobody likes the web based console).
Aha---have you tried the latest VMwareplayer? It seems to be their replacement for the old VMwareserver. It now enables you to install an O/S, so these days, I'm recommending it over VMware server--like you (and most people), I greatly dislike the 2.x way of doing things.
There is also the lighter, and at this point, probably less feature-ful VirtualBox, of course. However, VMwareplayer, like the old VMware server (that is, 1.x) allows you to install a wide variety of systems.
Also, as was said above, you can often find a prebuilt image.