Every now and then, people decide it's time to do some tinkering with virtual machines. And then they figure it's a good idea to share the experience.

embeddedman.com did just that with the article Creating Virtual Machines — EmbeddedMan Style. Check it out, it's a good read.

I recently received an email from a guy who has done a very nice tutorial on how to use VMware Player. His tutorial includes a section on EasyVMX. It's clearly written and easy to understand, so I decided to share it here on the blog.

His article is called Using VMware Player to Create Images for New Virtual Machines.

I'll admit it right now: I don't understand a single word of this. Dutch is like Greek to me.

But, if you can read and understand Dutch, and you want a tutorial on how to use VMware Player and EasyVMX! in this language, go to Planet.nl and read this article.

So, you've heard about virtualization. And you found VMware Player and EasyVMX!. What next?

You could always try the tutorial on this page, or you can go for some real style!

Blindhog.net has a wonderful video tutorial showing you how to obtain and install VMware Player, and how to use EasyVMX! for creating virtual machines.

There's even a follow-up showing you how to install Ubuntu in a virtual environment.

The VMware Player tutorials over at x86Virtualization.com have been a great hit, and part 3 has just surfaced.

This time you will learn how to make your own virtual machines, using either EasyVMX! or VMX Builder.

I'm sure you know about EasyVMX!, since you're already here reading this story. VMX Builder is another very nice piece of software that will make virtual machines. It's a Windows program, so you will need Windows (or maybe Wine) to run it. Or, if you're up for it, create a virtual machine to run it!

The article at x86Virtualization will take you on a trip down memory lane.
They're installing MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 and Netscape!

You may want to Digg it!

x86Virtualization.com continues the VMware Player tutorials.

This time, the focus is on prebuilt images. How to get them, how to run them and what to do with them.

As VMware has a whole lot of virtual appliances, there should be little trouble finding something cool, new and shiny to play with.

In the article, you will find tests of FreeNAS, Haiku (a BeOS clone) and RedHat images.

With two parts down, that leaves us waiting for part 3 and 4: Creating your own VMware images and converting from physical to virtual.

In a series of four articles, x86Virtualization.com will be focusing on VMware Player.

The first article shows you how to install VMware Player, step by step.

With the player installed, they will continue to these topics: