Free vmware workstation software for linux

VMware Server product is a robust yet easy to use software for users new to server virtualization technology.
VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines, and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization.
Benefits of VMware Server
Provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware.
Run Windows and Linux operating systems and applications on the same physical server.
Increase the utilization of a physical server.
Move virtual machines from one physical host to another without re-configuration.
With VMware Server you can:
Streamline software development and testing by allowing developers to create multiple environments with different operating systems on the same server.
Evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines without installation and configuration.
Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system.
Simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once and deploying it multiple times.
Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include virtual hardware, operating system and application environments. Virtual appliances for Web, email, proxy and other infratructure services are available for download from the VMTN Virtual Machine Center.
VMware Server is the first step to VMware Virtual Infrastructure
While VMware Server is a compelling product for new virtualization users, VMware Virtual Infrastructure products-ESX Server with Virtual SMP and VirtualCenter with VMotion-enable companies to implement large-scale production server consolidation, business continuity, and enterprise desktop solutions with enterprise-class performance, high availability, manageability and security. View a comparison between VMware Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes four security vulnerabilities, as reported in CVE-2007-1337, CVE-2007-1877, CVE-2007-1069, and CVE-2007-1876.
- These vulnerabilities permitted denial of service, crashes of Windows guests, or corrupted stack pointers.
- A problem with VMware Tools that caused the guest to run out of memory was fixed.
- A crash in the VIX API was resolved.
- Building of the kernel and the HGFS modules was improved.
- Several occasional crashes were fixed.

Toolwrap is a wrapper tool (a program which starts other program), which may be used to launch applications according to defined preferences (or policies).

Thanks to toolwrap, many releases of a given application can coexist, and may be deployed on a single workstation or made available on a files server. Policy files allow different users to use different versions transparently.

Environment files control which binaries to use and prepare the environment before starting the application.

Compiling

Compiling toolwrap should be as simple as :

./configure --prefix=/opt &&
make

Installation

If toolwrap compiles successfully, run make install to get the following tree & files created (assuming that /opt was specified at the "configure" step):

/opt
/opt/bin/toolwrap
/opt/pkgs
/opt/etc
/opt/etc/toolwrap-policies
/opt/env
/opt/env/__default__

/opt/bin/toolwrap is the wrapper itself. Wrapped binaries will be symlinked to toolwrap.
/opt/etc/toolwrap-policies holds the default wrapping policies. See policy. Policies indicate which package must be used when a tool is invoked.
/opt/etc/env/__default__ defines how the environment must be set up before starting a tool, and which binary is executed.

FIRE is a portable bootable cdrom based distribution with the goal of providing an immediate environment to perform forensic analysis, incident response, data recovery, virus scanning and vulnerability assessment.
Also provides necessary tools for live forensics/analysis on win32, sparc solaris and x86 linux hosts just by mounting the cdrom and using trusted static binaries available in /statbins.
Main features:
Forensics workstation/Data Recovery
- Instantly deploy a forensics workstation with tct, tctutils, mac-robber, and autopsy also provides perl 5.6.1 compiled with Large File Support.
Live System Incident Response
- Binaries are available for Incident Response on a live machine.
Virus Scanning
- Utilizing F-Prot 3.11beta http://www.f-prot.com you can scan for virii, worms, trojans, and all around harmful code.
- Just mount the filesystems that you want to scan and execute f-prot .
- Any filesystem you can mount, you can scan. mount and scan fat/ntfs/ext2/ext3/reiserfs partitions
- Scan your windows machines offline for virii that may not be detected with an "after the fact" anti-virus
- software installation.
Pen-Testing Platform
- I should NOT have to explain this portion: If the tools you would like to use are not in the distribution please make a request!

KAppfinder searches your workstation for many common applications and creates menu entries for them.

This package is part of KDE, and a component of the KDE base module. See the kde and kdebase packages for more information.

Installation:

You need to install klik on your system to run cmg applications.

Press Alt-F2 and paste:

wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh

libview library is a collection of widgets under the MIT license that we developed at VMware while working on Workstation 5. We felt they were general purpose enough to have value to the community. We have benefitted a lot from open source, and felt it was time to make a genuine effort to give back.
Our intention is for the libview SourceForge project to be the one place where these widgets will be developed and maintained. We will not be developing them in-house and pushing them out to the CVS repository. What you see on SourceForge CVS is what were using at VMware. We will be adding more widgets over time to libview as we write them.
Most of the widgets are written in C++ for gtkmm. While this does limit the usefulness to many projects, the projects are free to rewrite them in C and use them.
libview 0.5.1 has been released. This version includes two new widgets, the DeadEntry (a Gtk::Entry that is greyed out when no longer editable) and UndoableTextView (a Gtk::TextView with built-in undo/redo support).
There were some additional bug fixes, and a few test programs have been added.
Enhancements:
- An annoying yet amusing bug in view::FieldEntry was just discovered and fixed.
- Depending on the delimiter used in fields, certain keys may were not allowed to be inputted.
- In the case of our test, where "-" was used as a field delimiter, the character "6" wasnt considered a valid character.

Program Guard allows the user of a Linux workstation to specify which application programs that are allowed TCP/IP connections to the Internet (Internet addresses are defined as any IP address not in the range of 10.0.0.0/24 or 192.168.0.0/16).

The application program names can be specified by listing them in a file (Static Mode) by querying the user (Query Mode). In Query Mode, when a program that is unknown to Program Guard attempts to access an Internet IP address, Program Guard displays the Program Guard Dialog Box.

In addition to providing connection information, this dialog box gives the workstation user the option of allowing the program to access the Internet or to be blocked from accessing the Internet. This can be done either for the current instance of the program or for this and all future instances of the program (Make Persistent checkbox).

Currently, the program names that are allowed or denied Internet access apply to all users of the workstation rather than on a per user basis. For example, if Program Guard is running in Query Mode and user A invokes a program previously blocked from Internet access by user B, the program will be blocked from Internet access for User A as well.

Connections blocked by Program Guard are logged to the Program Guard log file pgrd.log. It is located in the /var/log/pgrd directory. If desired, Program Guard can be configured to log all Internet connection attempts rather than just those that have been blocked.

Program Guard was tested on Fedora Core 1 and Fedora Core 3 on single processor 32 bit X86 Intel processors. It has not been tested on other distributions or on multi-processor machines. While it works on Fedora Core 1, it will not build on a standard Linux 2.4.x kernel due to task_struct definitions that were not made until Linux 2.6. If there is enough interest, a version that runs under a standard Linux 2.4 kernel may be made available.

To run in Query Mode, Gnome 2.x and Glade 2.x are required. There are no prerequisites for Static Mode.

Installation:

Program Guard consists of three components: a kernel module; a daemon; and a Gnome GUI user interface component. All files needed to build the components are in the pgrd.tgz file. An installation shell script install-pgrd is provided for Fedora distributions.

It will build/install (or remove) the kernel module and daemon as well as configure them to be started automatically when the system is booted. To invoke it, type install-pgrd < install | remove >. This script may or may not be useable as is for other Linux distributions.

If you modify the install script, please note that the module, daemon and various support files must be installed in the /opt/pgrd directory for Program Guard to work properly (this is already handled when using the install script as provided). To run in Query Mode, each user must be configured by invoking the install-pgrd_user < username > script. And by going to the Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions selection in the Fedora Main Menu and adding pgrdgui to the Startup Programs tab.

Program Guard will be started the next time the machine is rebooted. If you do not wish to reboot, you may start Program Guard manually as described below in Manual Starting And Stopping. Note: If starting manually and using Query Mode, once the daemon and kernel module are started, make sure that you log out and log back in.

KOJAK (Kit for Objective Judgement and Knowledge-based Detection of Performance Bottlenecks) is a set of generic and interoperable tool components designed for the performance analysis of parallel applications.

Their functionality addresses the entire analysis process including instrumentation, postprocessing of performance data, and result presentation.

Particular emphasis is put on automation techniques to transform the collected data into a high-level view of performance behavior. An essential part of the software constitutes an integrated event-trace analysis environment for MPI and OpenMP applications.

Supported Platforms:

Instrumentation, Measurement, and Analysis:

Linux IA-32, IA-64, and EM64T/x86_64 clusters with GNU, PGI, or Intel compilers
IBM Power3 / Power4 based clusters
SGI Mips based clusters (O2k, O3k)
SGI IA-64 based clusters (Altix)
SUN Solaris Sparc and x86 based clusters
DEC/HP Alpha based clusters
Generic UNIX workstation (clusters)

Instrumentation and Measurement only:

Cray T3E, XD1 and X1
IBM BG/L
NEC SX
Hitachi SR-8000