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For those who are not familiar with VMware:
It is a piece of software that allows you to run another OS inside the OS
that is already installed.
e.g. You have Linux, XP, Win2000 etc. installed. You start VMware and then
are able to "install" in a "virtual environment" another OS e.g. Win95,
WinME, Linux, XP, Solaris etc.
You'll finish up that you can run both systems at the same time without the
need for "rebooting" (or "dual boot"). Initially it was developped for
computer departments to test networking etc. but since then it has become
handy for using an older OS to run a "legacy" system which will not run
under a newer (or alternative) operating system.
The latest Intel chips even have a special "bit" that is eventually going to
be used to an even more transparent switching between the OS's - at the
moment there is an approx 5% penalty in efficiency. (as recent as a few
years ago it was a lot less efficient, more like 50%).
If you do a "fresh" install and make a backup of that then basically you can
keep transferring the "fresh install" from machine to machine and never have
to reinstall again. (except installing VMware which is less than 100Mb and
takes only a few minutes).
Marinus,
I'm not familiar with VMware; what does it do?
Thanks,
Chris
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