Lately, I have been testing VMware Player.  I think it’s a very cool piece of software.  Through the use of VMware Player, I was able to install Ubuntu and Fedora and a bunch of other operating systems onto Windows Vista.  I have to admit that virtual machine is not that fast.  Vista is already a resource hungry operating system, and by installing other operating systems on the top of Vista is only slowing down a computer much more.  Fortunately, a host computer only slows down when a virtual machine is running.  This is not the case when you have a powerful server.  A powerful server can host many virtual machines at once without much of a difficulty.

For anyone who wants to learn how to use Linux before installing Linux onto a real machine, he or she can use VMware Player to install additional Linux’s operating systems onto Windows machine.  Deleting a virtual machine is so easy.  To delete a virtual machine, you need to delete a virtual machine file in a folder that VMware Player created.

To install a virtual machine onto your Windows, you can go to here and download VMware Player.  Installing VMware Player first, then you have to launch VMware Player to install your favorite OS.  Installing an OS onto VMware Player is pretty much the same way you do with installing Windows onto a real machine.  Just pop in your favorite OS’s DVD/CD into DVD/CD tray, and then allow VMware Player to access it.  Follow the instructions from the OS’s DVD/CD to completely install an OS onto Windows.

For your information, you don’t even need a DVD/CD of an OS to install an OS using VMware Player, because you can download an OS in an .iso format onto your hard drive and allow VMware Player to use an .iso file as if it’s a DVD/CD.

I bet web developers love to have many different operating systems fire up so they can check website compatibility for their web designs.  VMware Player is definitely a good way to do just that.  So now you know, if you are a web developer or just an enthusiastic person of operating systems, you can use VMware Player to install many operating systems onto a host machine.  I could be wrong, as of now WMware Player is only allow virtual machines to be installed on host operating systems that are Windows and Linux.  For Windows, I recommend you to use Windows 7 as a host operating system, because Windows Vista is a resource hogger.