{"id":409,"date":"2008-02-05T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/02\/05\/vmware-virtualization-software\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:02:12","slug":"vmware-virtualization-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/02\/05\/vmware-virtualization-software\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare Fusion &#8211; Virtualization Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a Google tech talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QJPq_8ULpRg\">VMWare Fusion<\/a>, I thought I give it a try.  VMWare Fusion is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtualization\">virtualization<\/a> software for the Mac OS X that allows you to run additional Operating Systems such as Windows XP or Ubuntu while running Mac OS X at the same time.  Basically you can run an additional guest system inside a VMWare Fusion window from Mac OS X.  This differs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2007\/11\/04\/mac-os-x-boot-camp\/\">Boot Camp<\/a> in that you can run both systems at once, not pick which to run at boot time.<\/p>\n<p>After installing, VMWare Fusion immideately found Windows from my Boot Camp partition.  I also found a <a href=\"http:\/\/isv-image.ubuntu.com\/vmware\/\">Ubuntu 7.10 VMWare image<\/a> from Ubuntu itself although you can find images on VMWare&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/appliances\/\">Virtual Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VMWare is a awesome technology that I foresee myself using as much as possible but it does have some bugs and shortcomings.  I had to reactive windows after running it from VMWare Fusion, Windows complaint about having the hardware on the computer change significantly.  I also experience an annoyance that the DVD player would start to play.  I also found it annoying that you have to hit ctrl+alt to return to the host computer, I wish VMWare was as seamless as Windows&#8217; Remote Desktop Connectivity.  And worst of all, WMWare Fusion costs $79, while the Windows version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download\/player\/\">VMWare Player<\/a>, is free!!!<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/vmware\" rel=\"tag\">vmware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/virtualization\" rel=\"tag\"> virtualization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/boot+camp\" rel=\"tag\"> boot camp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/os+x\" rel=\"tag\"> os x<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/windows\" rel=\"tag\"> windows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/xp\" rel=\"tag\"> xp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\"> ubuntu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/techtalk\" rel=\"tag\"> techtalk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/review\" rel=\"tag\"> review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a Google tech talk on VMWare Fusion, I thought I give it a try. VMWare Fusion is a virtualization software for the Mac OS X that allows you to run additional Operating Systems such as Windows XP or Ubuntu while running Mac OS X at the same time. Basically you can run an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-6B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}