“VMware has become famous since it allows you to run other
operating systems like MS-Windows on your linux desktop. Rado has
written a short review about this PC emulator for those who still
did not check out the free demo. Also he has interviewed Reza
Malekzadeh, the director of marketing at VMware.”
“Having the perfectly emulator for other operating systems (and,
if possible, for other architectures) is every nerds dream.. What
makes them so desirable, if not the feeling that you just bought
another computer for a very cheap prize, and it can even run in a
window of your favorite OS? Not only you can play all your favorite
games, Manic Miner, Jet Pack, Dechatlon… And if this does not
push tears in your eyes, you can use them to do some real work as
well….”
“VMware is not just an emulator. It is complete virtual
machine “built” on the underlying layer of hardware and the
existing operating system. It doesn’t take control of your
keyboard, mouse and video — you can run it in full screen mode as
well as in a window. This, however, requires some modifications to
get everything to act as usual. The virtual machine runs on top of
the existing OS, using its devices to access the underlying
hardware. The great advantage of this is that you can, for example,
have up to four virtual network adapters on your virtual machine,
and have them all bound to the network which uses the hosting OS as
gateway.”