VMWare is a very popular virtualization solution. I first encountered it many years ago when someone introduced me to VMWare Workstation. I was very impressed with the ability to run any operating system and its associated applications fully isolated 'on top' of an existing operating system. It makes for a very effective mechanism for trying out different operating sytems. In addition, with its snapshot capabilities, testing and performing experiments is simplified by having only to roll back to a specific marker in order to start over again with another variation. Continue reading "Virtualization on Opensource Platforms" »