This evening I discovered that VMware has a free virtual machine player for Windows and spent some time setting things up. One thing lead to another and I found myself putting together a two-part tutorial series on how to set it up.

Part One: Overview of Virtualization and Installing the VMware Player

Part Two: Setting up a Virtual Machine

I’ll expand on this more tomorrow, but it’s late now.

In the meantime here are the links referenced in the videos:

VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player
Appliance Library: http://www.vmware.com/appliances