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This book is about the VMware Workstation product: how to use it, how to set up its guest operating systems,
and the things you can do with these systems once you have them up and running.
VMware Workstation functions as a computer within a computer, so that you can start up an entire operating
system and run any programs for that operating system with it, while keeping your original operating system
environment intact (and usable). For example, a Linux user who needs to use a Windows program not
available for Linux (such as a map downloading system for a Palm’s GPS) can fire up VMware Workstation
in a window, start Windows NT there, run the mapping software, download the maps to the Palm using the
virtual serial port (connected to the real serial port on Linux), and then put Windows away for another time. It
can work the other way around, too—Windows users needing Linux applications can run them in a virtual
machine. And that’s just the beginning.
VMware is a virtual machine (VM) for an Intel Pentium−class or higher machine and is available for the
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Linux operating systems. Virtual machine software runs on
a real machine and provides a virtual machine with the same basic architecture as the real machine. The
architecture is based on the processor type—for example, the i686 (Intel Pentium II/III) and sun4u (Sun
UltraSPARC) are two different architectures.

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