VMware Virtual Platform For Linux: Beyond Dual-Booting What Are the Benefits? Paul Jones
Although the ability to concurrently run multiple OSes on the same machine is its most touted feature, that's certainly not all it does. Just what does VMware allow you to do? Here are just a few features of VMware.
How Do You Like Them Features!
Can encapsulate a virtual machine and enable it to be moved freely among different physical machines
Provides each virtual machine with fault isolation and containment capabilities, meaning that application crashes or data corruption occurring in a given virtual machine will not affect data or applications outside of that virtual machine
Developers can use a single machine to write and test applications for multiple target environments
Organizations can efficiently deploy new or upgraded versions of operating systems or applications throughout the enterprise, while keeping their current operating system and applications intact
All users can work with confidence because they know any changes they make to a system can be undone with just a click of a mouse button
Run multiple operating systems simultaneously in separate virtual machines on a standard PC
Run virtual machine sessions on the Windows NT desktop or run in full-screen mode; other virtual machines continue to run in the background
Use a hot key to switch between virtual machines
Run operating systems already installed on a multi-boot computer without reconfiguring
Install a virtual machine without repartitioning your disks
Share files and applications among virtual machines using a virtual network within a PC
Run client-server, Microsoft BackOffice, or Web applications between virtual machines on the same PC
VMware Virtual Platform uses all the processor components, thus eliminating the overhead typically associated with PC emulators.
