Please explain concept?

[dude444]

I have VMware 7.1 in 3 pc's (laptop/server/laptop),

the thing is after running the Vmware software & installing multiple OS in all the hosts,

what is the concept behind virtualization?

Simply having another OS inside another Operating system is like why don't you create another hdd partition & install OS there & take it from there?

Someone please elaborate if I am not mistaken?

Regards.

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[WoodyZ]

If you didn't have an understanding of or grasp the concepts of and for virtualization then why did you install VMware Workstation and then in turn create Virtual Machine's and install Guest OSes in the first place?

[louyo]

The concept is simple:

1. Hardware utilization. Run several servers as virtual machines running on one physical system. In this case we use ESX.

2. System testing, Run a couple of sharepoint servers in virtual machines to test development before moving to production. I do this in Workstation running 2 virtual servers simultaneously.

3. Again in WS, I run virtual machines to test software development. This allows testing on several platforms whether it is different versions of Windows or different distro's of Linux. Nobody in their right mind would test/debug my software on a real system.

4. I run a Windows system, in a VM, to manage the ESXi server.

5. Stuff that won't run in Windows 7 can run in "XP Mode", which is an XP system VM running via Virtual PC on top of Win7 (MS flavor).

6. Wash, rinse, dry, repeat.

If your mission is to just run different operating systems, one at a time, mult-boot on one machine may be all you need.

Lou

[dude444]

Lou,

Thanks a lot,

I was merely trying out Vmware & Hyper V on different OS's.

Now I perfectly understand why their is a need for virtualization before production which makes a lot of sense.

Don't want to compile & build before until you know for sure you won't get errors!!!

Did some C++, hmm,

thanks anyway.

Shaz

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[Joe1948]

I use it to test freeware before installing on actual pc. If it messes system up just delete it and bring up a new copy. It's useful when slipstreaming Windows to make sure it works. I run XP and Vista on it for some special apps. XP mode in Windows 7 was pretty lame I've got some old software that doesn't work on Windows 7. It depends on what you want to do. Want to try Linux? Want even older Windows os Win 95? Then you can get into much more exotic stuff if you wish.

Joe