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These notes are VMWare Workstation 4 specific. For other VMWare products, visit http://www.vmware.com .

VMWare Workstation is a virtual machine software that lets users create multiple virtual machines and run a different Operating System on each one of them. Currently, it runs on both Windows and Linux host operating systems.

VMWare uses the computer’s file system and creates files that map to a virtual machine’s disk drives, so there is no need to create a partition for each OS. Instead of dual booting, you can switch from one operating system to another with the click of a mouse button.

The host operating system treats VMWare Workstation like an application. No modifications need to be made to the guest OS when it is installed on a virtual machine. Applications on the guest OS run exactly as they do on the host OS.