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May 8th 2006


VM Software

Over the last few years there have been a lot of improvements in Virtual Machine (VM) software. Many users of Macs have known about VM software for years, but on the Windows side of the house most users, except for system integrators and developers, don’t have a clue as to what VM is, let alone why it would be at all useful to them.

What is VM? In a nutshell, VM, or Virtual Machines, are software representations of computer hardware. An application, such as VM Ware’s VM Workstation, is installed on your computer under Linux or Windows. Within the VM Ware Application, you can create multiple Virtual Machines, each one running a different instance of whichever operating systems you decide to install.

If you have the hard drive space, memory, and processor speed, you can run many of these at the same time. The way it works is that inside the VM Workstation, you click on File\New\Virtual Machine, and then fill out the wizard according to what operating system you plan to install in the new virtual machine.

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