VMware
VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended).
Recent releases
- 22 Aug 2010 19:14
Changes: A possible failure to start the USB arbitration service on some systems was fixed. The ability to access virtual disks after a host system power failure was restored. Mounting and accessing of other partitions than the first partition of virtual disks is now possible.
- 22 Aug 2010 19:14
Changes: A possible failure to start the USB arbitration service on some systems was fixed. The ability to access virtual disks after a host system power failure was restored. Mounting and accessing of other partitions than the first partition of virtual disks is now possible.
- 28 May 2010 15:22
Changes: OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows 7 and Vista guests has been introduced. Graphics performance has improved. OVF 1.1 support has been added to allow interaction with VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud. Support has been added for eight-way SMP and for 2 TB large virtual and raw disks. Intel's AES-NI instructions are now supported to improve performance with encrypted virtual disks. The list of supported operating systems has been expanded.
- 28 May 2010 15:22
Changes: OpenGL 2.1 support for Windows 7 and Vista guests has been introduced. Graphics performance has improved. OVF 1.1 support has been added to allow interaction with VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud. Support has been added for eight-way SMP and for 2 TB large virtual and raw disks. Intel's AES-NI instructions are now supported to improve performance with encrypted virtual disks. The list of supported operating systems has been expanded.
- 22 Feb 2010 15:26
Changes: Support was added for several guest and host operating systems.
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Recent commentsI realy love VMware, it is a great virtualization tool.
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Pete
Love this product
Been a user of VMware Workstation since the 2.0.x days - one minor correction to your description, though - it doesn't run "Novell", it runs "NetWare". Novell is a company; NetWare is one product delivered by the company, along with SUSE Linux and several other non-operating system products.
Re: VMWare
Hi,
VMware definetly rock the free server one and the Virtual Infrastructure version one. I have run all type of Linux guest OS in it. from Slackware, Ubuntu, and Redhat 3, 4, 5. All of them run quite stable and fast in it. I was always quite happy with it. I have actually implemented their VI3 to virtualize the full infrastructure of one ISP. It work really well. That does not mean there no other good virtualization software availables.
> Tried the beta on a p-ii/233, running RH
> 5.2, 2.0.36 kernel, 196MB RAM. I
> allocated a 1 GB disk file and 64M RAM
> to Win95 installed from an OEM CDROM.
> Installation and operation were and have
> been flawless. Very impressive product.
> I still must use two applications that
> are not available (yet!) for Linux -
> FPGA design tools - under Win95. This
> setup is very usable. There is a
> noticable performance hit on the Windows
> performance. Linux reports 90+% CPU
> allocated to vmware when Windows is
> actually doing something but at a very
> high nice level (14 - 19- seems to
> vary). The load average stays below 1.0
> unless I do something on Linux at the
> same time.
>
> Has anyone tried this on a K6-2? The
> vmware page indicates Windows has
> problems (unrelated to vmware) on k6's.
> Any insites?
>
> Thanks.
VMware Server vs. VMware Workstation
For those of you who are wondering about the differences between VMware Server and VMware Workstation, do check out this article:
kontrawize.blogs.com/k... (kontrawize blog)
Re: So it is not possible yet to have an OS on a Windows machine
For running Linux under NT, just get User Mode Linux. You can connect to the Linux system under NT using a VNC viewer or Cygwin's X11 server.
(If none of that makes sense to you, try Googling for the terms.)