Archive for January, 2009
Installing VMWare Server (and Windows XP) on Ubuntu
Virtualization allows running of multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. This can be very handy if you are doing software development and need to test your application on multiple platforms or are doing a lot of R&D and get tired of reloading the operating system and software. Virtualization is also helpful if you need to run Linux and Windows (or different flavor/version of Linux) at the same time and dual boot just does not cut it. VMWare Server from VMWare is great virtualization software and is provided as freeware. It allows you to create snapshot of the state of any particular virtual machine and revert to it easily.
Update 05/30/2009: Also see VirtualBox – virtualization alternative to VMWare
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