Virtual Machine Technology

It took me years to grow into my role but I know what I'm supposed to do and I do it well. My job is to be an independent man and make my own money so I don't have to rely on montly income (life becomes hard day by day). It's my job to juggle my full time job, pain in the Boss, incompetent assistant, then come home, make homework, and do my "nite" dreams.

Long entry ahead....

I have known virtual machine for 2 years, it's a powerful technical professional tools. One of them is VMWare. (It's better in performance rather than Virtual PC).

VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise. VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines — no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.

How Does VMware Workstation Work?

VMware Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting device support from the host.

Suse Linux on Windows 2000 Windows NT on Windows XP

What's new in VMWare 5

• Multiple snapshot feature to easily capture and manage point-in-yestime copies of running virtual machines and "undo" changes
• Teams feature to more easily manage connected virtual machines and simulate "real-world" multi-tier configurations
• Full and linked clone capabilities to easily copy and share virtual machines
• Support for new 32-bit guest and host operating systems
• Support for certain 64-bit host OSs and 64-bit extended processors
• Improved performance, especially for multi-virtual machine and networking workloads
• Movie record and playback feature to capture all activity in a running virtual machine
• Command line interface to automate certain repetitive tasks
• Improved Linux user interface
• Support for a class of streaming USB devices, including webcams and speakers
• Support for NX bit and experimental support for Sun Solaris x86