Virtualization Explored: Installing VMware
In this article we'll go through the entire process of setting up a virtual machine. You'll learn what software is required, what hardware should be used and, as a companion to the three-part article, why it is desirable to do so.
Installing VMware
For our example we'll create a 10 GB virtual machine on an Ubuntu-based Linux box. VMware is also available for Windows, but, in my personal opinion, it really defeats the purpose of running virtualized machines if you're going to do it in Windows. We are looking for an efficient foundation and Linux is a lot leaner than Windows. I believe the better solution is to have a small footprint host, and leave extra resources for the multiple guests. In addition, Linux is free which means you can you have it on all of your pieces of hardware (desktops + notebooks machines) without having to use up your licenses.
In my experience, the amount of hard drive space you need to physically allocate for the virtual machine is limited only by the encapsulation you want.
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