And one more follow up on virtualization: If creating virtual disks using online tools is too cumbersome for you, you can also use the (now free) VMware server. It comes with a build in UI for that, just like workstation. Unfortunately, video performance seems to be noticeable slower that with the player and you can't install both on the same machine.
Extremely flexible network configuration is indeed one strength of the VMware products. I can't even imagine how I've been installing all that stuff, taking screenshots for customer scenarios and so on in the pre-VMware days.
And one more follow up on virtualization: If creating virtual disks using online tools is too cumbersome for you, you can also use the (now free) VMware server. It comes with a build in UI for that, just like workstation. Unfortunately, video performance seems to be noticeable slower that with the player and you can't install both on the same machine.
Extremely flexible network configuration is indeed one strength of the VMware products. I can't even imagine how I've been installing all that stuff, taking screenshots for customer scenarios and so on in the pre-VMware days.