vmware.com went down shortly after a bulletin was posted on slashdot about it the following morning, around 8:30. everyone was looking for a copy, so i volunteered my ethernet connection and put the binaries up for public download. i hope vmware doesn't mind. i took them all down shortly after vmware's site went back up. between 8:30 and 11:30, i think i served up 5 gigs or so of screenshots and binaries.
the rest of the day was big, too. in the end, i served up almost 9 gigs worth of screenshots and binaries. it was scary. the stats for that day are here.
on a technical note, if you're going to run off of /dev/hda (your existing windows partition) you should probably read what vmware has to say. i've got a vmware employee post on slashdot here plus a link to a vmware tech info page, too.
you can also do "undoable" disks! that means you don't have to commit the changes a vmware session made to your hard drive. don't ask how. see this page.
go back to the index if you want to see my screenshots. i've got some crazy stuff ... like, for example, America On-Line running in a vmware session with TCP/IP networking.
here's what this page used to say:
i've got it running and it's SWEET. on this page are some screenshots, the vmware distribution packages, and my license key. please only use my license key until you can get your own. and ... well, you're already overloading my server with your HTTP requests, but hey, that's life.
you're going to have to deal with apache's plain-ol index format for now for the files. i'm lazy.
oh, and post a little something here if you love this / hate this / can't get this to work. cya.
... oh, and one more thing -- YES, it played the "microsoft sound" the first time it booted up. euuuugh (shudder).
