Author: Inderpreet
Imagine your dreams in which you have the freedom to think anything. Sometimes you become CEO of G00gle and many time busy in fulfilling all your wishes. In the same manner, using virtualization, you are having the freedom to use any OS on your laptop or desktop. It will make you more happy when you run the windows on the Linux or vice-versa.You don't even blink twice if you want to try a new operating system anymore or want to do the iPhone programming on Mac running on the windows operating system. Yes, all this is reality, if you enter the virtual world.
All of this freedom of choice is made possible through virtualization, specifically with VMWare Workstation. VMWare (or Virtual Machine Software) is exactly that, a software program that emulates an entire PC system. VMware runs on a variety of operating systems including Windows, Linux and Mac. Once my operating system is installed along with the needed vitalization tools I can literally go back to work by just starting up a virtual machine where all of my tools are stored.
For creating the virtual image, we need the VMWare Workstation. You need to purchase the licence for that. After installing the VMWare Workstation, setup the virtual machine before start installing any operating system. Steps for setting up the virtual machine. After doing the initial setup, install the OS. For steps to install, see the steps for installing the WindowsXP as the guest operating system.
For free users, you can download the VMWare player. After installing the player, download the virtual machine from the Virtual appliance. You need to register there for free and downlaod the open source Operating systems virtual machine. You will find the virtual machines for operating systems like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Open Solaris etc. for free.
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