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Vmware Workstation 5 for Linux

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Platform:   Linux
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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Linux
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1

Product Features

  • VMware virtualization layer maps physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources
  • Each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices -- the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine.
  • Full and linked clone capabilities for easily copying and sharing virtual machines

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  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • ASIN: B0009NF9LI
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2005
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,291 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Workstation 5 is desktop virtualization software for software developers. Whether you're working as a software engineer, tester or IT professional, it will help you streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. Run multiple x86-based operating systems - including Windows, Linux, NetWare and their applications - simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines. Create multiple development and testing environments as virtual machines on a single PC and use them to test real world multi-tier configurations, complex networks, and multiple operating systems -- all on a single machine. It also contains a multiple snapshot feature to easily capture and manage point-in-time copies of running virtual machines. System administrators and other IT professionals will test software, new applications, application updates, and operating system patches -- all in virtual machines, prior to deployment on physical PCs or servers in a production environment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Future of Computing with Multiple OSs at the Same Time is Here! (Can also boot Mac OSX on a PC!!!), December 10, 2006
By OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com) - See all my reviews
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Now we can truly virtualize as many Operating Systems (OSs) as we like on a modern rig, all with full networking capabilities that run anywhere between 100% and 75% of the speed as if the OS was actually hard installed on the system. However when we are talking systems with above 512 MB of RAM and better than 2.0 Ghz, you are never going to go with a single OS machine or a multiboot/dualboot when you have seen VMware in action. I have booted Windows XP (you can boot Win 3.1, Win 2K also if you want), Linux Slackware (one of the unsupported Linux distros that works and I don't see why all Linux versions should work), FreeBSD6 (6 is unsupported but works), Solaris 10 (no problem) and I have personally seen the Apple MAC OS X Tiger running on it, but running OSx86 is illegal. However I have seen it on VMware on a PC. You can load all this on a notebook and have all of these OSs running on it at the same time, even full screen mode and it just looks so unreal, the kind of stuff that moves your soul when you see OSx86 with networking running on a PC Laptop. The fact you can toggle between the OSs without needing to boot only one OS and the presence of OSx86 makes this an absolute must. A few things need to be noted though. Sometimes you should use VIRTUAL IDE Virtual HDDs instead of SCCIs in VMware virtual hardware setup. In VMWARE BIOS (F2) you sometimes must change large disk access mode to OTHER rather than DOS, especially for Linux systems. If you can't get proper screen resolutions sizes, install VMware Tools from VMware, right click on OSs tab, "Install VMware Tools" and this mounts the tools inside the OSs in the /cdrom drive. Copy it and install it and you should have all the resolutions you need. Anyway what are you waiting for? This is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Note: Kernel compiling is for advanced Linux users and if you are going to be opening up the Kernel then SuSE is not for you. Advanced users use Slackware or something more professional than SuSE or else you will hit problems. I have used SuSE, great for newbies, not for expert work. VMware does support Linux. There are dozens of VMware channels on IRC. 24/7 support and their support website is good.
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