VMware Usage Tutorials

A friend of the writer is a game maniac, he was able to install DOS on the Windows XP operating system, "red Alert," "Kingdoms" and "monopoly", and even a Japanese version of Dos for an old Japanese game, he installed multiple operating systems on his computer, Multiple-boot management software is even used to manage these operating systems. In fact, it is too easy to install several other operating systems on one operating system platform without such trouble.

If you are tired of Windows, want to try Linux, but fear the repartition of Linux; maybe you like to try all kinds of software, but you hate reloading system; Maybe you've installed multiple operating systems, but you can only reboot when you need to switch the OS; maybe you're a nostalgic gamer, Often annoyed that the operating system does not support a game ... Then you have to use VMware virtual machines, and everything will be easy to do.

VMware is a multiple-system installation software produced by VMware. With it, you can take a piece of hard disk and memory out of a computer and virtual out a number of machines, each machine can run a separate operating system without interference, these "new" machines each have their own independent CMOS, hard disk and operating system, you can use the same as ordinary machines to partition them, format, Install system and application software and other operations, you can also connect these operating systems into a network. After the virtual system crashes can be directly deleted without affecting the native system, the same system crashes after the virtual system does not affect the same, you can reload the next time to join the previous virtual system. It is also the only virtual computer software that can run on Windows and Linux host platforms. VMware virtual machine software does not require a reboot, it can use several OS on the same computer, not only convenient but also safe.

Install Virtual Platform

There is no need to introduce too much on the installation, please note that VMware can only be installed in WINNT/2000/XP or Linux, and FreeBSD. When you're done, you can see that you've got two more blocks named VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter (basic host-only support for VMNET1) and VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter (Net Work address translation (NAT), a virtual NIC for VMnet8, is also a feature of VMware, as you can use a virtual network adapter for networking setup and its experiments under VMware (Figure 1).

Build a virtual system

Double-click the "VMware" icon on the desktop to enter the main VMware window, click on the new virtual machine on the right to create a new dummy system, then select Typical, and then select an operating system to install (Figure 2, Figure 3).

Now select the virtual system you created, and click on the Power on button on the top toolbar to turn it on (Figure 4).