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VMWare was my first real life encounter with virtualisation I remember (back in early-mid 2000 I think, my memory is a bit hazy) installing VMWare on a couple
by teh_klev 11y ago
VMWare was my first real life encounter with virtualisation
I remember (back in early-mid 2000 I think, my memory is a bit hazy) installing VMWare on a couple of company training lab machines.
One machine ran Windows, the other Redhat Linux. I installed VMWare on both. On the RedHat machine I brought up a VM running Windows (2000 I think), on the Windows machine I brought up a VM running RedHat.
Suffice to say my jaw dropped with amazement (yes, I know, but simple things at all that). I then got on the phone yelling for my colleagues to get over to the lab pronto because I had something amazing to to show them, and jibbering on about "Windows is running inside Linux!!".
So thank you VMWare Workstation folks for brightening up an otherwise dull day :)
- slantyyz 11y agoMy memories go back to 2000 as well, running it on a Pentium III laptop. Back then, I used it for running multiple versions of Windows so I could test web apps on different versions of IE (4 and 5, I think), when IE was still the dominant browser. It was such a game changer at the time.