VMware is a great technology that completely give you freedom inside an operating system. You can run a complete operating system inside an operating system. There is no limitation and its not very hard to configure. Try out another operating system, test a different platform, preview a new distro. Hopefully this page of VMware images, or "Virtual Appliances" is useful.
These images will work in:
- VMware Player free!
- VMware Server free!
- VMware Workstation 5.5+
- VMware ESX 3+/VMware Virtual Infrastructure
- Get the free VMware Player (or VMware Server, ESX 3, or VMware Workstation)
- Download the image you want to use (see the list below)
- Unzip it
- Load the image in VMware