VMware Player donated the operating system a virtual PC. The free software emulates a computer within a computer - fully self contained and disconnected from the guest operating system.
This allows the user to try new operating systems or applications and surf the Internet safely. By pressing a button you return at any time back to the original state of the virtual PC. The only requirement: You need one with VMware virtual machine created.
Virtual machines for VMware Player can contain any operating system that runs on an x86 architecture - ie not only numerous Windows-based Unix platforms such as Linux. A virtual PC offers over the complete functionality of a real computer. Only with graphic and memory intensive applications or games you will quickly reach the limits of VMware Player.
Especially handy is a virtual operating system for testing and development purposes proves in the software sector. But even as a 100 percent encapsulated environment for exploring the global data networks is a VMware Player running Windows or Linux. If such a virus get on the PC, the real Windows remains completely unaffected. In addition, we restored with VMware Player at any time by pressing a button the initial state of a virtual machine.
Conclusion
With VMware Player is expanding its system to another computer - free, customized and totally secure.
Reference
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