Free vmware 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.

Operator is a complete Linux (Debian) distribution that runs from a single bootable CD and runs entirely in RAM.
The Operator contains an extensive set of Open Source network security tools that can be used for monitoring and discovering networks.
This virtually can turn any PC into a network security pen-testing device without having to install any software. Operator also contains a set of computer forensic and data recovery tools that can be used to assist you in data retrieval on the local system.
Starting with the 3.3 version of Operator, we have started completely from scratch by installing a basic Debian installation then adding the KNOPPIX functionality afterwards. This allowed us to have more control and understanding of what is on the CD.
Main features:
- Debian based Linux Installation
- Linux-Kernel 2.4.31
- KDE V3.3.2-1
- wine Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator)
- Konqueror and Mozilla Firebird Web Browsers
- Koffice which includes korganizer, kword, kspread and more
- X Multimedia System (xmms) an MPEG-video, MP3
- Internet connection software kppp,pppoeconf (DSL)
- utilities for data recovery and system repairs, even for other operating systems
- network and security analysis tools for network administrators
- many programming languages, development tools
- in total more than 900 installed software packages with over 2000 executable user programs and utilities
- 100+ Unix/Windows Exploits and Tools ready to run
Enhancements:
- Modified wireless_select to use /proc/net/dev instead of /proc/net/wireless. Some cards were not showing up after they were reinserted like orinoco.
- Added package aim_1.5.286 AOL Instant Messenger
- Stripped down locales to use en_, de_, es_ only
- upgraded hydra-4.6 to hydra-4.7
- Added BusLogic driver to the kernel so that vmware would not panic when booting after an HD install.
- Updated Metasploit framework from 2.3 to 2.4
- reinstalled libnet1-dev
- fixed captive-ntfs
- Added new Exploits:
- HOD-ms05039-pnp-expl - (MS05-039) Microsoft Windows Plug-and-Play Service Remote Overflow
- HOD-kerio-firewall-DoS-expl - Kerio Personal Firewall Multiple IP Options Denial of Service
- HOD-ms04031-netdde-expl - Microsoft Windows NetDDE Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit
- HOD-ms04032-emf-expl - Microsoft Windows Metafile (.emf) Heap Overflow Exploit
- HOD-ms05002-ani-expl - Internet Explorer .ANI files handling Universal Exploit
- HOD-ms05017-msmq-expl - Message Queuing Buffer Overflow Universal Exploit
- DSR-cpanel - POC for Cpanel 5 and below
- cpanel-9x_RCE - POC for Cpanel 9 and below
- DSR-nethack - local exploit for Nethack 3.4.0
- phpLDAPadmin - phpLDAPadmin 0.9.6 - 0.9.7 Remote command Execution
- phpbb.php - phpBB 2.0.10 Remote command Execution
- HP_OV_NNM_RCE - HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.2, 6.4, 7.01, 7.50 Remote Command Execution
- Added new Tools:
- zebra 0.94 - Tool that manages TCP/IP based routing protocols
- voipong 1.2 dev - VoIP call detector and voice dumper VoIPong is a utility which detects all Voice Over IP calls on a pipeline, and for those which are G711 encoded, dumps actual conversation to seperate wave files. It supports SIP, H323, Ciscos Skinny Client Protocol, RTP and RTCP.
- Upgraded yersinia v0.5.3 to v0.5.6 - Framework for performing layer 2 attacks
- ike-scan v1.2 - Discover and fingerprint IKE hosts (IPsec VPN Servers)

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.

Source Mage GNU/Linux distribution is based on a sorcerous metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" packages, which we refer to as "spells".
This is a development ISO and potentially loaded with bugs and glitches. This is where you come in. We need your help to squash these bugs.
Please download, burn, and install this ISO to a spare partition, extra computer, or over your least favorite friends Windows partition. VMWare or bochs works too. Upon finding a glitch, please report it in bugzilla. No bug is too small, or too large.
Help shape the future of Source Mage! Download the Next Generation Testing ISO and install!
Enhancements:
- A "dependency" scheme was added to make sure you dont accidentally skip a vital step or do things in the wrong order.
- You can still override dependencies if you really know what youre doing.
- Spells are now installed in the background while you are busy selecting options.
- Software RAID support via mdadm was added.

With this package, it is easy to modify the GeeXboX in a few seconds without having to build the sources.
The generator produces an ISO image of the GeeXboX, ready to be burned on disc.
GeeXboX ISO Generator currently works under both GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP operating systems.
Enhancements:
System:
- Updated linux to version 2.6.16.17.
- Updated BusyBox to 1.1.3.
- Updated uClibc to 2006.05.05 snapshot.
- Updated udev to version 0.92.
Toolchain:
- Introduced GCC 4.1.1 as the new compiler.
- Support for C++ in the toolchain.
- All packages are now built with big files support flag.
- Added support for non-free binary firmwares at sources build.
Player:
- Updated MPlayer to 1.0pre8.
- DVD Navigation Menus support.
- SHOUTcast and Netstream support (with content filtering on adult/subscription-only
- streams).
- Support for LIVE555 library (RTP/RTSP/SIP streaming) which provides FreeboxTV
- support for French people using the Free ISP.
- Use mp3-lib instead of FFMpeg to avoid audible glitches while seeking.
- Fix MPlayers bug which prevents AVI files with ODML index (99% of XviD files) to
- be read when idx=yes (default).
- Fix sound/subtitles issues while playing MPEG-TS streams.
- Support for multichannel AAC in MOV files.
- Playback of IFO files (DVD disc ripped on HDD for example) now works as expected.
- Set minimal cache size (5% of cache) to start playback of file very quickly.
- Fix TV channel OSD name generation with spaces in their name.
- Allows RTSP clients port forcing (for FreeboxTV users in router mode for example).
- Added support for DVD-RAM MPEG files.
Menu:
- Brand new menu item selection display (now with alpha layer).
- Added new menu that displays streams A/V properties.
- Allows metadata retrieval from MP3/OGG/FLAC audio files.
- Properties menu auto-opens and updates on audio-only media.
- Prevent user from browsing (and getting lost) in /
- Display NICs MAC address into information menu.
- Display CDROM size.
- Fixed display of disks partition size and freespace.
- Added release number information.
Audio:
- Update ALSA library and utilities to version v1.0.11.
- Added a lot of fixes for audio playback.
Video:
- Added support for different resolutions to be used through generator.
- Support for VESA with Intel i865, i910 and i915 chipsets.
Drivers:
- Added support for Serial ATA CDROM drives.
- Added support for ATAPI/IDE ZIP/LS120 drives.
- Added support for PcCard (32bits CardBus only, not 16bits PCMCIA).
- Added LCD displays support through LCD4Linux.
- Added support for most of the Gigabit NICs.
- Fix support of Nova DVB-S+ card.
- Updated LIRC to v0.8.0.
- Updated rt2400/rt2500 drivers to CVS 05.09.2006.
- Fix em8300 driver and firmware loading issues.
Networking:
- Updated djmount to version 0.53 (files are no more represented as playlist).
- Fixed bftpd FTP server write access error.
- Updated bftpd to version 1.4, and included fix for file transfers greater than 2GB.
- Update wireless tools to version 28.
Generator:
- Updated generator tools for MacOS X (support for MacIntel x86 OSX 10.4).
- Allow you to choose between multiple themes.
- Option for DVD Navigation menus to select it as a default or not.
- Option for autoplay to select it as a default or not.
- Option for SHOUTcast (radio and tv netstreams).
- Tab for video settings configuration (resolution, color depth and boot splash)
- Tab for support of LCD displays.
Miscellaneous:
- Fixed zoomed scrolling in FBI image viewer.
- Support for Microsoft Media Center Edition USB, StreamZap, Twinhan DTV, Toshiba
- VT76F and ATI Remote Wonder II remotes.
- Implemented full Digimatrix hardware support (apart from panel buttons).
- Allow multiple resolutions in themes.
- Support for VMware and QEMU (usefull for test purpose).

JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use.
It runs on modern devices.
Any java application will run on it, fast & secure! JNode is open source and uses the LGPL license.
This release has taken way too much time, but is finally here!
It contains lots of changes on many areas of JNode. Most important changes are about the massive improvements of the GUI and the Classpath runtime library.
Besides these changes, a lot of changes have to to with the inner workings of the JNode virtual machine.
To make it easier to try JNode, this release comes with a VMWare player configuration file. Install VMWare player, download the compressed iso image, uncompress it, download the VMX file and run it.
Enhancements:
- Basic support for development under JNode javac command, included with the use of Eclipse JDT compiler Integrated standard java tools: jar, native2ascii, serialver etc. from GNU Classpath Text console improvements Swing based console New textconsole based editor JFat - a FAT32 file system implementation RamFS - a simple in-memory file system FTPFS - a read-only FTP based file system Many classpath patches ImageIO support for PNG, GIF and BMP images from GNU Classpath BDF font support Changable desktop Look & Feel Isolate (JSR 121), not fully supported Simple webserver under JNode Various bugfixes in the resource loading, ISO9660, socket writing Download of JNode can be done at www.jnode.org/node/### More information can be found at www.jnode.org or http://sourceforge.net/projects/jnode

NagiosOnCD is a linux live CDROM for using Nagios with minimal effort. The main purpose are distributed Nagios sensors, but you can also use NagiosOnCD for small installations and education. There is a preconfigured VMware appliance available using the ISO image of NagiosOnCD. The appliance runs Nagios out of the box.
The configuration of NagiosOnCD is based on files. If you are able to configure Debian/GNU linux with a text editor, you will have no problem to configure NagiosOnCD. Only a small set of files (plus your Nagios configuration) needs some
configuration, i.e. network setup for ip address (default: dhcp), hostname an so on.
Main features:
- Linux kernel 2.6.17.13
- unionfs 1.3
- nagios-2.5
- nagios-plugins-1.4.3
- nrpe-2.5.2
- nsca-2.6
- NagiosGrapher-1.5-2-dev"