VMware for Linux

What a great idea, sounding very similar to a free project called bochs. The idea is to have a virtual machine that emulates all the hardware of an IBM-Compatible computer, and allow window to run on it and think that it is a computer. Though the idea may have started of by looking at the bochs project, VMWare is far more complete. It emulates all hardware, and appears to do it well. I managed quite easily to run my copy of windows in a window, with very little effort. However, this is not a real solution if you need to be able to use Windows quite a fare bit. This is because it slows down your system so much, that is is unbearble to work at. Inorder ...  Read the complete review

The idea behind VMWare is pretty incredible . How can you split one computer into many ? Get one machine to implement one or many virtual machines in software . Many of the emulators for various systems you'll use will run some games with glitches but seeing as how complicated it is to emulate a PC VMWare is a stunning product . So what do you get ? You get as many virtual machines as you have memory to run at once . Since modern operating systems need at least 30-40 megs of ram to run reasonably you're going to need a fair amount if you want to be able to run a couple of machines together . As well as a virtual machine you get a virtual ...  Read the complete review

Well the abilty to run a windows PC inside a Linux environment sounds OK to me. (although Linux geeks probably cannot think of anything worse) The need for compatibilty with the 95% of people out there running windows or similar is one of the main stumbling blocks for the Linux community in general. Alongside WINE (which is supposed to emulated a windows box as well - but by allowing XWindows to run PC apps) this is one solution you can use to get a windows environment working in your Linux installation. It works by essentially using a certain amount of your system to emulate a less powerful PC. It runs all of the things a PC would do in hardware, using ...  Read the complete review