I am digging deep into the world of Ubuntu development and am trying to make sure my alpha and beta testing is as effective as possible. I also don't want to cash out an arm and a leg for expensive software to do so. I've been using virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) for testing on virtual machines, and while things seem to be going well, I'd like to test on other hypervisors too for the sake of catching as many bugs as possible.
VMware provides their Workstation Player product for free, for non-commercial use. Problem is, I can't figure out if using VMware for Ubuntu testing would be considered commercial use. One one hand, I'm not a Canonical employee, nor am I using VMware for employment purposes, so that would be non-commercial, but on the other hand, I'm helping a large enterprise build an OS that is used for commercial purposes, so that seems like commercial use.
Do any of y'all do QA testing in the free version of VMware Workstation Player? Does anyone know if this is a legal use of VMware?
Thank you for your help and time.
(Note: I think these kinds of questions are what this mailing list is for, but if I'm misguided and should have sent this to ubuntu-devel-discuss, please let me know and I'll direct these kinds of questions there instead.)
