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I've just starting using VMware Workstation 5.0.
More to come on this later, but the short review is this:
You can try it out for free (http://www.vmware.com/download/) . Do it! It's far easier than you might expect, and it works far better than you might expect too.
So far I have installed Fedora Core 2 and found it easier to install in the Virtual machine than it was to install on my real desktop.
This is not a simulator, but instead creates virtual machines. In some cases, a vitural machine cna actually run faster that a real machine becasue it doesn't have "real" hardware to wait on for certain operations.
vMware offers high-end solution that go beyond the workstation offering by allowing remote users of mulitple virtual machines on varying hardware and operating systems. On the really high end is support for virtual computer farms that can be move from real-machine to real-machine in real-time. Go figure...
This is an excellent piece of software for putting together demos. Becasue the harddrives and memory are virtual, vMware can support full-rollbacks to to check points. You can even roll-back to check point and keep the states that exist after that point. In other words, you can have forks in the machines state. If you understand that wihout using vMware, consider yourself pretty smart.
I've just starting using VMware Workstation 5.0.
More to come on this later, but the short review is this:
You can try it out for free (http://www.vmware.com/download/) . Do it! It's far easier than you might expect, and it works far better than you might expect too.
So far I have installed Fedora Core 2 and found it easier to install in the Virtual machine than it was to install on my real desktop.
This is not a simulator, but instead creates virtual machines. In some cases, a vitural machine cna actually run faster that a real machine becasue it doesn't have "real" hardware to wait on for certain operations.
vMware offers high-end solution that go beyond the workstation offering by allowing remote users of mulitple virtual machines on varying hardware and operating systems. On the really high end is support for virtual computer farms that can be move from real-machine to real-machine in real-time. Go figure...
This is an excellent piece of software for putting together demos. Becasue the harddrives and memory are virtual, vMware can support full-rollbacks to to check points. You can even roll-back to check point and keep the states that exist after that point. In other words, you can have forks in the machines state. If you understand that wihout using vMware, consider yourself pretty smart.
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