Vmware : Carrying the virtualization Flag

For long people have been toying with concept of accessing one OS through another.There were several hands tried at it.This was primary to be helpful to the community who wanted linux to come up in a big way.The arguement was,if you had access to both windows and linux at the same time, you can directly compare the workability of both the OSs at the same time ,assess and decide what to do.People who are not willing to migrate from windows directly make give many reasons for it,some of them as silly as," i dont have a system to try out linux".For them virtualization gives a nice answer.

Hence after we have some good reasons to have virtual machine on our systems, we can install vmware on a windows machine and install linux over it.

We will follow some simple steps to install vmware server running on linux, I used Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for it.

1.Download the vmware server installer file from the link http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ which gives a free version of vmware server.

2.Activate the product using free product keys.

3.Once we are done with the installation of the vmware server console,we make connection the local host.

4.Now, we select the option of creating an new virual machine,select a typical install,select the appropriate guest OS u want,here i am keeping it as linux.Next we select the flavour of linux we want.

5.Now, we name the machine and set its path in the directory where we have allocated the space for the virtual machines.

In my system i had kept a dedicated partition for the VMs(Virtual Machines) and that is advisable because, if you create the virtual machines using the default path they will get created in the program files of the C: drive.For our conveniece we should keep it separate.

6.Next allocate it space on your hard disk.I gave 8GB and divided it into 2 parts of 2GB each.

7.Now finish this by clicking on finish and we have parameters all set make a new virtual machine.

Now we connect the cd drive to vmware console and iso image depending upon the availability.We do the linux installation as we do normally and there we have a virtual machine up and running.This machine will have a different ip address also.