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An Updated Look at Workstation Virtualization Software: VMware workstation 4

Sat, 11/05/2005 - 5:26am — jimj
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Virtualization, and the virtualization product VMware Workstation, changed my life. I know that sounds absurd, but it’s true. I reviewed VMware Workstation 4 in this magazine (January 2004) and was impressed; impressed enough to buy a copy to use for all my software testing tasks. I no longer need to rebuild systems after major system crashes—I simply revert to a previous virtual machine (VM) state snapshot and I’m back in business. Better yet, I no longer bother with multiple physical PCs, KVM’s, or swappable hard drives to run test OS’s either.

Prior to my review of VMware two years ago, I had used previous versions of their software with some success (VMware version 1 was released in 1999), but back then I found it painfully hardware dependent, RAM and processor hungry, and fairly glitchy.

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