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Virtual machine software from VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (www.vmware.com) that allows multiple copies of the same operating system or several different operating systems to run in the same...

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Virtual machine software from VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (www.vmware.com) that allows multiple copies of the same operating system or several different operating systems to run in the same x86-based machine. For years, VMware has been the leader in virtualization software (see virtual machine).

Client PC Versions
VMware Workstation supports Windows, Linux and Unix guest operating systems. VMware ACE is a deployment tool for propagating virtual machines created in VMware Workstation to other PCs. A user's desktop (OS and applications) can be stored on a USB drive for transport.

VMware Fusion for the Mac
VMware Fusion runs Windows, Linux and other guest operating systems on the Mac (see VMware Fusion).

VMware Player - Try It First
The VMware Player runtime engine executes applications packaged as a virtual appliance without requiring the full VMware in the computer (see VMware Player).

vSphere Server Versions
vSphere is VMware's brand for its ESX and ESXi products. ESX is the company's flagship server virtualization product, which includes tools for datacenter management. For example, VMware's Vmotion enables virtual machines to be migrated live from one server to another.

ESXi (formerly ESX Server 3i) is a compact version that was designed for both servers and embedded devices. ESXi eliminates the console operating system (COS) in ESX.

Free VMware Server
VMware Server (formerly GSX Server) is a free product. However, VMware Server requires Windows or Linux to work, whereas ESX and ESXi are stand-alone virtual machine monitors (hypervisors) that directly control the hardware.

Thin Clients - Virtual Desktop Manager
Under the umbrella of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) VMware's Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) provides a desktop virtualization environment for thin clients. Each user's desktop resides as a VMware virtual machine in the server. See thin client and virtual machine.



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  • VMware boss focuses on post-PC era at VMworld

    Paul Maritz, who led Microsoft's Windows operating system as it became dominant, tells VMworld conference attendees to focus on a multi-device world in their deployments and development.

    News items | August 29, 2011 6:55pm PDT

  • VMworld opens with new products, new attacks

    VMware begins its conference debuting products to manage virtualization for corporations, while Microsoft launches an ad campaign targeting its rival's new licensing policy.

    News items | August 29, 2011 4:23pm PDT

  • Free VMware Player 3.0 RC - A worthy upgrade

    VMware Player 3.0 has hit the Release Candidate (RC) stage and is available for public download. This latest release brings with it some neat new features.

    Image galleries | October 6, 2009 2:21pm PDT

  • App virtualization meets the mobile device

    At VMworld in San Francisco, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod shows a Visa mobile application on a Microsoft Windows CE device that is also running virtually on Google's Android OS. The functionality...

    Videos | September 2, 2009 4:01pm PDT

  • Tinkering with the virtual desktop

    At VMworld in San Francisco, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talks to HP's director of software virtualization, Steve DuPree, about how the company's VMware View product fits into HP's virtualization...

    Videos | September 1, 2009 4:03pm PDT

  • VMWare executive shows off fluid network switching

    At the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, VMWare CTO Stephen Herrod explains what the additional features in the company's network switching distribution will bring to virtualization. One of the...

    Videos | May 22, 2009 4:00pm PDT

  • Tech giants form open cloud standards group

    A major systems-management standards body has formed a group dedicated to developing open management standards for cloud computing.

    News items | April 28, 2009 1:17pm PDT

  • Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware

    The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market.

    News items | October 10, 2008 6:05am PDT

  • VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

    At this year's VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft's hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware

    News items | September 22, 2008 9:46am PDT

  • Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market

    As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree.

    News items | September 19, 2008 4:46am PDT

  • Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V

    Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality.

    News items | June 26, 2008 10:57am PDT

  • Data centers: Friend to the environment or foe?

    At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., on June 6, Forrester Research Senior Vice President Christopher Mines moderates a discussion on data centers. IBM's vice president of...

    Videos | June 13, 2008 8:27am PDT

  • Setting up mixed cloud and mobile computing

    By utilising the power of mobile computing with a cloud storage provider, you can (in theory) take your hard drive anywhere with you, with nothing more than a username and password.

    Image galleries | June 13, 2008 6:41am PDT

  • Hardcore virtualization - VMware ESX 3.5/Infrastructure - Part 1

    This will be my first in a series (an "X = X +1" sort of series) where I'll be looking at virtualization. However, rather than look at the kind of virtualization where you inxstall and OS like...

    Image galleries | May 30, 2008 4:58am PDT

  • Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 and VMWare 2.0 Server

    The two latest and greatest free commercial host-based virtualization products from Sun and VMWare

    Image galleries | May 16, 2008 9:25pm PDT

  • VMware Workstation 6

    The latest version of VMware Workstation is a worthy upgrade: It's familiar enough to use without diving into the manual, yet delivers a crop of new, useful features.

    Image galleries | May 11, 2007 8:06am PDT

  • VMware player screenshots

    VMware released a free player that allows you to run virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX, and ESX Server as well as Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk...

    Image galleries | August 2, 2006 12:10pm PDT

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