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My fellow PBLUG members got me interested in a software product product called VMware Workstation 4.5, from VMware. So upon finding a decent price I placed an order for two, one for my workstation at work, and the other for use at home. So what does this VMware do you ask? VMware Workstation enables software developers to develop and test the most complex networked server-class applications running on Microsoft Windows, Linux or NetWare all on a single desktop. VMware Workstation works by enabling multiple operating systems and their applications to run concurrently on a single physical machine. These operating systems and applications are isolated in secure virtual machines that co-exist on a single piece of hardware. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine’s resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, I/O devices, etc. Virtual machines are the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine.

With the help of PBLUG member Joe Burnett I was able to quickly get VMware setup and running Fedora Core 1 on my Windows 2000 workstation at the office and Windows XP on my Fedora Core 1 box at home. Having these VM tools allow me to do just about anything I need to do no matter what OS I’m currently running in as I will be able to switch between many different OSes at the click of a mouse button (and without having to reboot the entire machine to select a different OS at boot time).