Evaluating Live-CDs made easy

The recently released VMWare Player is designed to run existing virtual machines.

However, with a little tweaking, it is possible to run bootable CDs in it:

  1. Download a desired Live CD (e.g. DamnSmallLinux)
  2. Create a suitable .vmx file
  3. Start vmplayer with this vmx file and there it is:

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