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VMware is a commercial PC emulator running on i386 compatible cpus. It allows you to run any x86 compatible OS in a kind of 'sandbox' - inside the VMware virtual machine you can run other operating systems like Windows or some other version of Linux. Both Windows and a Linux versions are available. |
A free version called VMware Player is available at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Other 'free' VMware software that is able to convert your physical OS to a virtual environment OS can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
The VWware Workstation is available for both Windows and Linux, and starts at about 200 US dollars, see http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/pricing.html.
VMware is not a true emulator, it doesn't emulate a CPU like Bochs does, it wraps CPU commands around... It does emulate various hardware devices like network-, graphic- and sound cards.
Installation Instructions
- Very good how-to which didn't require any additional configuration or changes in order to install vmware on debian and then windows xp as a guest os.
After Debian Upgrade, Instruction
VMware, Debian Kernel Upgrade
On an apt-get upgrade when your kernel has been updated you need to download the kernel headers and reconfigure vmware.
apt-get update apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
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VMware on amd64
- In order to install vmware on amd64 you have to install few extra libs:
aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` libx11-6 libx11-dev x-window-system-core x-window-system xspecs libxtst6 psmisc build-essential ia32-libs
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