OSNews: VMWare Workstation 4.0 Review

“If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to
compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac
(Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and
if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able
to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it’s
a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows
and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines
have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain
pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4…

“VMWare can be installed under Linux by typing rpm -ivh, after
installation type vmware-config.pl to build your vmmon,vmnet
modules. Now before you start worrying about having to build
anything under Linux the build process is totally automated and
very exact. The Windows installation is done by double-clicking the
.exe file…”

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