:: what is VMWARE ::

[mohsin]

hello guyz may be irrelevant topic but i think i should go for it

what is VMWARE .. and for what purpose its used ?

could you plz explain it to me thnx for any replies

[sether]

Sure,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware

[sdousley]

and if that wikipedia is too coimplicated, it allows you to ruin different OS's inside of your current OS.

I tend to use it to try out installers before i balls my system up

[mohsin]

thnx man could you plz tell me if i m using xp then can i able to run LINUX over it or is it soo or some thing else

[sdousley]

what do you mean by over it??

Basically what vmware alows u to do is boot an entirely different system within the current OS.

So if u had XP, u could open up vmware, then boot the VM, and you can install say SuSE in that VM, without it affecting the win XP install.

Or if u rebooted ur computer and installed SuSE direct to the hard drive, u could dual-boot SuSE / XP. Personally, i rarely use vmware as it is rather memory hungry effectively running 2 OS's at the same time

[mohsin]

yeh that the type of reply i want ..

ok i'll give try to VMWARE but i already have suse on other hard and xp on other hard i'll use them for diff thing

so no need to use vmware as u tell that it sucks

[sdousley]

no, if u have SusE and XP installed on seperate hard disks u dont need to install vmware, just reboot and it will ask what u want to load, suse or xp