It does emulate various hardware devices like network, graphics and audio cards.
VMware is not a true emulator, it doesn't emulate a CPU like Bochs does, it wraps CPU commands around.
You can use it for example to convert your physical installations or other virtual machines types to a VMware virtual environment.Ĭommercial products like VMware Workstation Pro is available for Linux. VMware vCenter Converter is zero-cost and allows you to convert your physical OS to a virtual environment OS. Both Windows and a Linux versions are available.įor Free Software alternatives see our SystemVirtualization section. It allows you to run any x86 compatible OS in a kind of 'sandbox' - inside the VMware virtual machine you can run other operating systems like Windows, FreeBSD or some other version of Linux. VMware is a proprietary and commercial PC virtualization solution running on amd64 compatible CPUs ( supported CPUs), since version 11.
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