“Groovy Motherfucker”

If you don’t already own Parallels Desktop, the new VMWare beta is great — I far prefer “Unity” to “Coherence” for mixing Windows apps on the OS X desktop. Only $40 if you buy before the official release at the end of August.

Wow, Record/Replay sounds useful. Similar to the Java Omniscient Debugger, but capturing the whole machine state. Looks like VMWare are doing a good job of differentiating their free and pay-for versions.

Fantastic news: VMWare are making their server product free(beer). I’m almost certainly going to use this for a dev server at work — Backup the virtual machine image every night, and if hardware crashes, just startup your backed-up image on a new machine. Also gets around the “You can’t create an image” limitation of the free VMWare Player app.

I’ve been gabbling excitedly for the last week to anyone in earshot about what a big deal I think the free VMWare Player is. Here’s some more great arguments for it.

Use the free VMWare Player to *create* virtual machines.

This has great potential. VMWare have a free “player” allowing anyone to run pre-built virtual machines.