“If you have dual Windows and Linux environments and don’t know
about VMware 1.1 for Linux — the latest version — I strongly
suggest that you look into it. It will save you time and energy
when switching among systems.”
“VMware is a system-emulation environment that implements
the hardware of a PC entirely in software. This means that you can
install other operating systems directly on one or more of such
emulated virtual machine (VM). Each of these guest operating
systems runs on top of your host operating system — in our case,
Linux. (VMware has also released a version that runs on
Windows NT, but we won’t talk about that.) Each guest OS thinks
that it is running on its own separate physical machine, and thus
does not conflict with the others; VMware apportions out the actual
physical devices and device drivers to each guest OS.”
“VMware only supports guest OSs that run on Intel-compatible
PCs, but can support up to four of these running at the same time,
and each can be of a radically different type. For example, you
could have Windows 2000, Windows 98, FreeBSD, and Solaris all
running as guest OSs on top of your Linux host OS. Each of these
operating systems is implemented very differently, but, for all
intents and purposes, uses the virtual machines in the same
way.”