Hi all...my team and I have been using VMWare Workstation for years. I have been looking on the VMW website and cannot find a product that fits my use case (if VMW even creates such said product):
We'd like to have a VMW product that installs on the hard drive which replaces an Operating System...therefore, when we power up the computer, a VMWare product starts up rather than Windows or another OS. So imagine powering up your laptop and 10 seconds later VMWare Workstation is running.
Once the VMW product has opened up, we can navigate to another hard drive and open a VM that was created on VMWare Workstation 6.0 and higher. So in essence we are removing all the Windows (or other OS) overhead to make our VMs perform better. We use laptops to demo software so we don't have access to things like 16GB of memory or super fast CPUs...just whatever laptop technology exists.
Does such a VMW product exist? The closest I have found is ESXi...however, that acts more of as a server where other machines would connect to it. What we are looking for is basically a way to boot our laptops into a VM so that we are not using Windows and all of it's memory and CPU overhead. If there was a slick VMW product that would do what we are looking for, that would be terrific.
Thanks so much in advance!
-Eric
