VMware Virtual Platform For Linux: Beyond Dual-Booting What Is It and How Does It Work? Paul Jones
VMware, Inc., out of Palo Alto, California is paving the way to a higher level of computing with their Virtual Platform software. VMware Virtual Platform gives users an innovative solution to platform incompatibility that offers flexibility and superior performance.
Most likely the first question you have is What is the VMware Virtual Platform?, followed closely by a skeptical And how does it work?. Fair enough, those were my first questions as well.
VMware Virtual Platform is a thin software layer that permits multiple OSes to run simultaneously, using the same hardware resources. This is made possible by transparently multiplexing all hardware resources into multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine has a unique network address and resembles the underlying machine. VMware is installed on a host OS (either Linux or Windows NT). Once installed, various guest OSes can be run loaded and run concurrently with the host OS.
