From today on quoTrader offers virtualized operating systems for VMware and VirtualBox. We are starting with Ubuntu, the popular and free OS, namely with the Ubuntu 9.04 desktop VMware image.

For operation you will need at least the free VMware Player. Ubuntu has been set up with home directory encryption so that you can better hide your trading gains from the tax man.

The image has the latest VMware Tools installed and the following features of VMware Tools have been tested and are fully working, which is relatively seldom:

Resizing the appliance is simply done by resizing the host window. The pointer notices automatically whether it has to serve the inner or outer system. File exchange is accomplished by VMware's Shared Folders feature. Drag and drop and clipboard copy and paste operations between host and guest work also.

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