Workstation 5.0 for Windows

Now we can truly virtualize as many Operating Systems (OSs) as we like on a modern rig, all with full networking capabilities that run anywhere between 100% and 75% of the speed as if the OS was actually hard installed on the system. However when we are talking systems with above 512 MB of RAM and better than 2.0 Ghz, you are never going to go with a single OS machine or a multiboot/dualboot when you have seen VMware in action. I have booted Windows XP (you can boot Win 3.1, Win 2K also if you want), Linux Slackware (one of the unsupported Linux distros that works and I don't see why all Linux versions should work), FreeBSD6 (6 is unsupported but works), Solaris 10 (no problem) and I have personally seen the Apple MAC OS X Tiger running on it, but running OSx86 is illegal. However I have seen it on VMware on a PC. You can load all this on a notebook and have all of these OSs running on it at the same time, even full screen mode and it just looks so unreal, the kind of stuff that moves your soul when you see OSx86 with networking running on a PC Laptop. The fact you can toggle between the OSs without needing to boot only one OS and the presence of OSx86 makes this an absolute must. A few things need to be noted though. Sometimes you should use VIRTUAL IDE Virtual HDDs instead of SCCIs in VMware virtual hardware setup. In VMWARE BIOS (F2) you sometimes must change large disk access mode to OTHER rather than DOS, especially for Linux systems. If you can't get proper screen resolutions sizes, install VMware Tools from VMware, right click on OSs tab, "Install VMware Tools" and this mounts the tools inside the OSs in the /cdrom drive. Copy it and install it and you should have all the resolutions you need. Anyway what are you waiting for? This is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It works Ok for the PC window virtualization, but up layer window OS application running is very slow. It must need more hardware resources to support to run faster.

The product key was sold to me and found out that the key had been used previously by another user

This application is terrific. VMWare Workstation eliminates, for most applications at least, the requirement for dual or multiple boot systems. For example, you can switch operating systems with the click of a mouse button. I have actually had three operatiing systems running concurrently on my system.From the time I loaded the VMWare CD Rom into my disk drive until I had an operational SuSe Linux running in a virtual machine under Windows 2000 Professional was less than three hours. I took a little longer to get the full functionality of Linux; however, this was my problem, not VMWare's. I see no observable performance degradation when running normal Linux applications; however, because of the limitations of the virtual display's some 3-D intensive application may not work. Note: I am running a 64-bit Athlon processor with 4-gig of ram, and 2 120 gig hard drives. One is NTFS and the other is Linux formatted. Accessing the 'real' Linux drive, and dual DVD's was easy to set up. I had no VMWare problems setting up a local network, and the connection to the internet (dial-up).My major use for Linux is for numerically intensively computational scientific research and many of the supporting applications I need are not available as windows applications.Another big advantage of this system is that the entire virtual system can be backed up by copying one file (at least on NT 2000).VMWare seriously needs dual head and 3-D virtual driver support. The lack of dual head support is my only major complaint.