VMware Player: Run Multiple OS on a Single PC
VMware Player is a free desktop virtualization software application that lets you run any virtual machine on your system. It’s like running multiple operating systems on single PC. Basically it creates separate virtual machines for each OS and your system can run different operating systems at a time. It is set up as a typical desktop app that can easily create and run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC.
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Features:
- Run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC
- Experience the benefits of preconfigured products without any
- installation or configuration hassles
- Share data between host computer and virtual machine
- Run 32- and 64-bit virtual machines
- Leverage 2-way Virtual SMP
- Use 3rd-party virtual machines and images
- Share data between host computer and virtual machine
- Broad host and guest operating system support
- Support for USB 2.0 devices
- Get appliance info at start-up
- Gain easy access to virtual machines via intuitive home page
- interface
To download VMware Player please Visit vmware.com/download/player/
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A process VM, sometimes called an application virtual machine, runs as a normal application inside an OS and supports a single process. It is created when that process is started and destroyed when it exits. Its purpose is to provide a platform-independent programming environment that abstracts away details of the underlying hardware or operating system, and allows a program to execute in the same way on any platform.
A process VM provides a high-level abstraction — that of a high-level programming language (compared to the low-level ISA abstraction of the system VM). Process VMs are implemented using an interpreter; performance comparable to compiled programming languages is achieved by the use of just-in-time compilation.
This type of VM has become popular with the Java programming language, which is implemented using the Java virtual machine. Other examples include the Parrot virtual machine, which serves as an abstraction layer for several interpreted languages, and the .NET Framework, which runs on a VM called the Common Language Runtime.
A special case of process VMs are systems that abstract over the communication mechanisms of a (potentially heterogeneous) computer cluster. Such a VM does not consist of a single process, but one process per physical machine in the cluster. They are designed to ease the task of programming parallel applications by letting the programmer focus on algorithms rather than the communication mechanisms provided by the interconnect and the OS. They do not hide the fact that communication takes place, and as such do not attempt to present the cluster as a single parallel machine.
Unlike other process VMs, these systems do not provide a specific programming language, but are embedded in an existing language; typically such a system provides bindings for several languages (e.g., C and FORTRAN). Examples are PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message Passing Interface). They are not strictly virtual machines, as the applications running on top still have access to all OS services, and are therefore not confined to the system model provided by the “VM”.