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VMWare Workstation is one of the oldest consumer virtualisation programs, but these days it has some stiff competition. Microsoft, Sun and VMWare itself all offer free software that allows you to run guest operating systems on your PC, each in its own virtual machine.

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Fortunately, Workstation 7 has lots of stuff that its free competitors lack. For a start, you can run several virtual machines at once in the program’s tabbed interface; so you can flick between operating systems as easily as you would between tabs in a web browser. If you find that you’re running too many machines, you can simply pause a running machine, instantly releasing its resources for use by your host PC or by other virtual machines.

Another boon for anyone who does a lot of testing is the clone function. Using this you can quickly create a new virtual machine by cloning an existing one. This way you can keep one pristine template for each OS you run, and just make clones of it each time you need a new test machine. You can also create snapshots of a machine’s state. If something goes wrong, for instance you install some faulty software, you can then revert to an older snapshot. You’re not limited to a single snapshot for each system (as is the case, for example, in Microsoft Virtual PC), you can take as many as you like. The program’s snapshot manager makes it easy and quick to see all the snapshots taken of a machine.

Another useful feature is the ability to group virtual machines in teams. Grouping machines in a team, means you can start them all with a single click – useful if you’re testing both server and client applications. You can also do things such as specify a staggered startup for the machines in a team, so the server starts before the client, for instance. Using the program’s network functions, you can also isolate a team on their own virtual network, giving them limited access to your host PC and your real network – or no access at all.

As you’d expect, this version of Workstation supports Windows 7. It’s also the first virtualisation program to support the transparent Aero theme on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. If you have a virtual machine that needs a bit more oomph, you can now assign it up to four processor cores and 32GB of memory.

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How to run Ubuntu 9.04 on VMware Workstation 6.5.3?

Well I would like to try Ubuntu out but when I do run it it gets to a screen where it asks me if I want to Try without changing anything on computer, install, check disk, and boot from first hard drive. I have tried every option but it never goes any further. Is there something I am supposed to do to get it to run? Any help is appreciated.

Mike is right. Running Ubuntu (or any other OS) under VMware Workstation on a consumer-level computer will yield less-than-desirable results.

Wubi is the Window Ubuntu Installer. It installs a complete distribution of Ubuntu on a PC into a Windows disk file (rather than into a carved-out disk partition). I'm typing this right now on a Wubi-installed 9.04 distro.

When Wubi installs, it updates your Windows boot.ini, so that you are given the choice at boot time (just like with a separate partition) of which OS you want to use (my default OS is Windows XP Pro).

You can have the full, completely update-able Ubuntu without the additional overhead (and maintenance, configuration) of VMware Workstation.

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