VMware

[xhalloweenlvrx]

i've been wondering about this for a while ...

can you have say

edited typo ..
WinXP running VMware running Linux running vmware running [windows] ... or whatever OSes you like?

if so, how many levels can you get?

or better yet, how many levels have you guys gotten?

what a waste of time, but its fun!

[HeadBand]

i am not framilar with this program but if it will emulate window in linux...hook me up with a linky

[xhalloweenlvrx]

www.vmware.com

it simulates a computer, so you can run a whole operating system in it. its great!

unfortunately, its 300 dollars, but they'll let you try it for free... theres a crack but im not posting it



edit ...

PS it doesnt need to emulate windows, because its running windows!

I run suse 9.0, win2k, winxp, win2k3, mandrake, red hat, knoppix, and other various os in vmware all the time.

good times

they great thing about it is i surf websites in it so spyware and viruses are not a problem.

[Droppyale]

how does it exactly work?

does it partition your HD for each OS?

it creates virtual partitons

when you load up vmware, it makes the os think that it is running by itself. Not emulated. space it uses is sort of like an iso

[vass0922]

You're misunderstanding how VMWare works (I think)

You do NOT nest OS's several layers deep

the ONE server runs several OS's all on the same layer

The parent (server) has multiple children (host OS's)

Droppyale, you give vmware one BIG chunk partition. VMWare itself manages disk space beyond that

So you'd give vmware a 50 gig partition say the E: drive
OS1 will get 10 GB's of that
OS2 will get 5GB's
OS3 will get 20GB etc.
Still only ONE partition on host OS.

Beware VMWare is a resource HOG, seeing that it literally runs the actual OS... it is NOT an OS emulator.

[Droppyale]

wait... so you run these OS's from within windows?

meaning, you are runing windows, you launch vmware, and it loads another OS?


right?

[vass0922]

It depends on what version of VMware you have

For the most part yes
THere is also a version of VMWare that runs its own OS (Based on RH linux ) that is the host OS then you can run any OS on top of that.

The general version of VMware you can use windows or linux as the host then run any OS's on top of that.

Its great in a large environment when you have numerous servers that you want to give its OWN server to, but don't want to allocate a physical server.

In a NT4 Environment its good for BDC's because you don't want to allow users to connect to a BDC for permission reasons, but its still a spare server on the network to ask as a backup domain controller.

[Droppyale]

Very cool.. thanks