What is VMWare?

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What is VMWare?

Postby R_Head » 30 Jun 2011, 14:39

I will like to know what is VMWare on a nutshell.

What is really for?

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Re: What is VMWare?

Postby viking60 » 30 Jun 2011, 17:15

VM stands for Virtual Machine. It can hold many different (mostly) servers on the same box. You can run any OS you like and many different OS''s. Like Windows and Linux on the same box. You could have an Arch server, RedHat and Suse server f.ex. That makes it easy to manage. (It will probably be called Cloud these days :-D)
Easy to manage = money saved - so there you have the big deal. I am sure our Gurus Jkerr and Rolf can come up with something more sensible on this.
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Re: What is VMWare?

Postby R_Head » 30 Jun 2011, 19:04

The question is because someone in another forum seems to have trouble running Mandriva 64 Bits on VMWare.

IMHO, perhaps the person does not really know.

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Re: What is VMWare?

Postby viking60 » 30 Jun 2011, 21:18

Yes It should be possible, so it probably is a case of misconfiguration.
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