> in the beginning I used VMWare as an occasional crutch but I haven't fired up a VM in about a year now. Out of curiosity, did you use the free Vmware player

> in the beginning I used VMWare as an occasional crutch but I haven't fired up a VM in about a year now. Out of curiosity, did you use the free Vmware player or the paid Vmware products? I have been using Ubuntu as my personal and work system for sometime now but there are situations when running Vmware would be beneficial. I see that the license prohibits commercial use and I think dev work would be commercial use.