[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak for this link. ]
“The majority of Linux users have gotten used to keeping more
than one operating system on their hard disks. Most frequently the
second system is a version of Microsoft Windows. Switching between
the two systems tends to be irritating, especially when the
secondary system is needed only once–to run an application WINE
has refused to start, for example. Now we introduce the
virtualization technology which allows us to run several systems on
the same computer, at the same time, all under the control of one
of them, called a ‘host.’ My examples are based on the Vmware
Server Console v. 1.0.3 (distributed from its manufacturer’s WWW
free of charge) running under Mandriva Linux Spring with KDE
3.5.7…”