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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

VMware Workstation

Tired of installing ubuntu/fedora on your laptop and then re-installing if something gets messed up????

Here is the solution. If you are a windows user you can install the software named "VMware Workstation". It is a virtual machine which can load any operating system. It behaves as a computer and you can install any operating system as easily as you install a normal software. It's that simple!!

One of the features i personally liked was that you can suspend it whenever you want. You can also change the path where you want to store the Operating System. So what you can do is store it in any other drive in which you have not installed windows. In future if at all you need to re-install
windows again you can just give the path so that your data is not
lost. You can resume from the last session.
One of the other things that i liked was that you can copy the OS folder to any other computer which has VM Ware installed, even this resumes from where you left(that's like a dream come true). You can work on the virtual OS
as well as Windows, so if you want to try something out on ubuntu while on
windows, you can do it. Some of the versions also allow you to drag and
drop a file from windows to virtual OS.

You can simultaneously run two
or more OS on VM Ware.The only problem is that you cannot
use much graphics or RAM. Its limitation is that you cannot use the desktop
effects like rotating the desktop cube in ubuntu. But that's ok if you
just want to use it for understanding ubuntu.

Personally I used to have windows at first then i shifted to only
ubuntu on my laptop. It was fun actually but sometimes you are stuck
at a point from where you can never get the solution of a problem.
Recently i got so busy with kubuntu that i was not able to give time
to other important stuff. Now finally i shifted to windows and am using
this software.

Hope you find it useful. :)

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