I started playing with the VMware appliance yesterday and was very impressed. I am downloading the LiveCD right now.
An option that I ran across the other day is running a LiveCD in the VMware Player using the VM and steps located here:
http://www.vmwarez.com/2006/02/livec...l-machine.html
This was intended mainly for developers who DON'T release VMware appliances but DO release LiveCDs. Since Zimbra offers both a VMware appliance and a LiveCD, running the LiveCD on VMware Player is not as valuable. However, I can think of a few advantages of doing so:
- The Zimbra LiveCD download is smaller than the Zimbra VMware appliance.
- As KevinH mentioned, the Zimbra LiveCD is pre-configured with more features and selling points than the Zimbra VMware appliance.
- If you already have the VMware player installed, then you can run the Zimbra LiveCD without having to reboot your PC or find another PC.
Congratulations to the Zimbra team for coming up with more innovative ways of showing off their amazing achievements!