If you are a person who developes programs if you are a web programmer, you would require to have almost all operating systems to test out your project work. The testing would need you to have a lot of machines with different operating systems loaded on them and ready to use at your call. The other alternative would be using a single machine loaded with multiple operating systems. But this would involve restarting the machine and booting into the required as. Painful, isn't it. The amount of work that would be involved in preparing the system for all these operating systems, the partitioning of the drives, the backing up of essential data, etc is quite risky and time-taking.



Wouldn't it be nice if you could just click an icon and the required operating system would be on your screen waiting for your commands? Yes, there is a software that can do just the same work without actually rebooting the system. VMware is the software that can be used to install multiple operating systems, and if you have a fairly fast machine, you can even run multiple operating systems simultaneously.
Using a virtual machine software, you can install multiple operating systems inside your existing Windows or Linux system. Software such as Virtual PC or VMware can be used to install, test and use different operating systems from within your existing one.

VMware-workstation-6.5.0-118166 is downloadable from VMware: Virtualization via Hypervisor, Virtual Machine & Server Consolidation - VMware and is also available for MAC and Linux platforms. Just install it and you can go about installing Linux, DOS, Netware, Solaris or various Windows versions in your current as. All you need is a computer with at least 1 - 1.5 GB memory and a free space of at least 20 GB or more. You can use even it to test various live distributions of Linux directly from an ISO from your hard drive, without the need to reboot your system. Pause any as and use it anytime you need it, or just delete the virtual as system if you are tired of it. Let's show you how to install another as in your as in a few simple steps. We installed a 54-bit version of Windows XP from within a 32-bit Windows Vista os