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What Is VMWARE ? pls help
Can anyone tell what is VMWARE , i have been hearing this for sometime pls post those who have used it
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VMWare is Virtual Machine software. It allows you to run a second OS inside of your primary operating system. It's virtualized so that it behaves as a separate PC.
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To clarify, that's VMware Workstation Smith6612's talking about. Technically, VMware is the company that makes VMware Workstation; they have a bunch of other virtualization products too that I won't get into because it's almost certainly Workstation you've heard about and are interested in.
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SO will i be able to install any OS in my loacl pc without any problem
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mostly yes.
VMWare has several products, some free, some not free.
I believe "Server" and "Player" are free, but not "Workstation" nor "Fusion".
I could recommend to you trying http://www.virtualbox.org/ as it is free. You can always graduate to VMWare. Also there is Microsoft Virtual PC for free, has a simpler interface, but I dont find it as good as VirtualBox and definitely nowhere near VMWare.
A hyperviser is the server or host. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
A virtual machine is the guest operating system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
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As a side note for everyone....if you ever install VM Server (1.0.x) on a laptop....even if it is a dual core with loads of RAM, it will still lock up....at least if the Host is running Vista....
I do a lot of software 'smoke' testing (i.e. testing before production) on VM's and have to use VMware Player or VirtualPC to get them to work right....
Thats just my 2 cents....
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The simple answer is NO! you won't be able to load MAC OS other then that its YES!Originally Posted by vishal2
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you cant use VM Ware for MAC OS? I thought you could load any OS known to man on it! lol baring in mind im only using it for Ubuntu lol
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You *COULD* load Mac OS into a Virtual Machine if you know what you're doing and you do it right. There's also that iffy action of messing with Apple's Agreements though.
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Mac OS does not enjoy anyone messing with their software so they try to make it difficult to do anything except for it's intended purposes. They also make it hard to run Mac OS X on a clean PC, but it is not impossible. As for Virtualization, that too is difficult but you could Google search how to do it. I am sure it is not impossible.
In any case, you can run any Windows and Linux OS'. It is mostly used by programming companies to see if their programs work in other OS.
I would suggest starting out with VirtualBox then moving on to VMWare Workstation. In any case VirtualBox can run Windows in Linux if you need to run a Windows program that does not work with Wine.
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