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Recently VMWare announced the release of a free (as in beer) “player”. (No link since it’s so easy to find using Google.) I thought this might be a way to finally install Linux on my most powerful machine. If I could use VMWare to run the VirtualPC images I use for work then I can throw out Windows altogether. Well, it was worth a shot anyway.

Major disappointment though! It turns out VMWare Player can’t handle VirtualPC images unless you run VMWare on Windows. It doesn’t even seem to be possible to use a VMWare on a Windows machine to convert the VirtualPC images to VMWare images. So, VMWare Player is useless to me, and I’ll be stuck running Windows a bit longer on my other machine…

A small problem at work, with a silly little solution. This really should be filed under silly-but-I-have-such-a-bad-memory. For some strange reason I can’t always get the Linux system in Virtual PC to use NTP properly. However, it seems my regular Linux machine doesn’t suffer from the problem. I could set up an NTP server, but I’m a bit lazy… it’s also not that important to have exact time.

My current solution looks like this:

$ ssh root@virtual.pc "date -s \"$(date)\""