It is available in a Live CD format that allows it to be used on a computer without installing it on the hard drive, and in versions compatible with hardware emulation / virtualization systems, including Bochs, QEMU, VMware Workstation / Fusion, VirtualBox and Microsoft Virtual PC.

* VMware ( ESX Server, Fusion, Virtual Server, Workstation, Player and ACE )

However, Windows versions of WordPerfect Office can run on Macs using Windows virtualization software, such as Parallels Desktop for Mac or VMware Fusion.

Examples of kernel-space drivers include disk adapter and network adapter drivers, graphics drivers, drivers for USB and FireWire host controllers, and drivers for virtual machine software such as Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware Fusion.

* Virtualization: VMware Infrastructure, VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Fusion.

* VMware provides virtual machines for x86 that can run unmodified PC operating systems.

Additional addresses ( say, 10. 0. 0. 230-10. 0. 0. 240 ) are aliased to the loopback interface of the server ( or assigned to special interfaces, the latter typically being the case with VMware / UML / jails / vservers / other virtual server environments ) and ' published ' on the 10. 0. 0. 2 interface ( although many operating systems allow direct allocation of multiple addresses to one interface, thus eliminating the need for such tricks ).

IBM is offering an inclusive package of Informix materials to college faculty called " Informix In a Box ", which offers hands-on labs and PowerPoints to use in lessons, recorded training for teachers, DVDs with class material and VMware virtual appliance images, as well as T-shirts for students.

One of the first results of this is the Cisco Nexus 1000V, a distributed virtual software switch that will be an integrated option in the VMware infrastructure.

In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest.

For these reasons, VMware operates dramatically faster than emulators, running at more than 80 % of the speed that the virtual guest operating-system would run directly on the same hardware.

Although VMware virtual machines run in user-mode, VMware Workstation itself requires the installation of various drivers in the host operating-system, notably to dynamically switch the Global Descriptor Table ( GDT ) and the Interrupt Descriptor Table ( IDT ).

Examples of such containers are SolFS or a single-file virtual file system in an emulator like PCTask or so-called WinUAE, Oracle's VirtualBox, Microsoft's Virtual PC, VMware.

The COW concept is also used in virtualization / emulation software such as VMware Virtualization, Bochs, QEMU, Linux vserver, UML and VirtualBox for virtual disk storage.

It does not use a virtual machine such as VMware.

Ghost can copy the contents of one hard drive to another and can convert a hard drive ′ s contents to a virtual disk format such as VMware ′ s VMDK file.

The VMware vCenter Converter for instance lets users " convert physical machines to virtual machines-for free " as part of that company's suite of products to make images easier to back up and manage.

* VMware Tools-package enhances graphics and mouse performance in virtual machines

Online instructions for this way of doing things emphasise the use of virtual PC environments ( such as VMware Workstation or VirtualBox ) for testing, as the end user often gets no support from the program manufacturer for using these " homemade " CDs.

System emulators host a guest operating system in a virtual machine ; some ( including VMware, VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, QEMU and Virtual PC ) can perform whole-system snapshots by dumping the entire machine state to a backing file and redirecting future guest writes to a second file, which then acts as a copy-on-write table.

* Virtualization Security-The Security Gateway VE product for virtual environments, which runs on VMware ESX and ESXi, secures virtual machines and applications via either hypervisor integration using the VMSafe API, or as a VMware network appliance.

NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units, and supports, amongst many others, hot backups for major database products like Oracle, can natively backup and restore the virtual machines of major virtualization products like VMware Infrastructure, can use Network Data Management Protocol ( NDMP ), and has tape vaulting.

WinDbg allows debugging Microsoft Windows kernel running on a VMware or VPC or Parallels virtual machine using a Named pipe.

VMware Workstation, Server, and ESX take a more optimized path to running target operating systems on the host than emulators ( such as Bochs ) which simulate the function of each CPU instruction on the target machine one-by-one, or dynamic recompilation which compiles blocks of machine-instructions the first time they execute, and then uses the translated code directly when the code runs subsequently ( Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac OS X takes this approach.

This form of virtualization usually imposes little or no overhead, because programs in virtual partition use the operating system's normal system call interface and do not need to be subject to emulation or run in an intermediate virtual machine, as is the case with whole-system virtualizers ( such as VMware and QEMU ) or paravirtualizers ( such as Xen and UML ).

Once it was determined that VMware was not a possibility, it hired a group of Russian software developers to write a host-based hypervisor that would officially support OS / 2.

Despite these limitations, several software packages have managed to provide virtualization on the x86 architecture, even though dynamic recompilation of privileged code, as first implemented by VMware, incurs some performance overhead as compared to a VM running on a natively virtualizable architecture such as the IBM System / 370 or Motorola MC68020.

VMware, Inc. () is a company providing virtualization software, founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA.

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal embedded hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

On January 12, 2010, VMware acquired Zimbra, an open-source collaboration software tool, from Yahoo.

VMware software provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.

VMware software virtualizes the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters.

) VMware software does not emulate an instruction set for different hardware not physically present.

In many respects, IBM's CP-67 and CP / CMS products anticipated ( and heavily influenced ) contemporary virtualization software, such as VMware Workstation, Xen, and Microsoft Virtual PC.

A live CD ISO image can also be mounted by Virtual Machine software such as VirtualBox and VMware Workstation or can be converted to a Live USB using SYSLINUX.

As Mac OS X can now be run natively on the x86 platform, including on non-Apple computers ( albeit in contravention of the Mac OS X license agreement ), interest in PearPC has waned since and attention now largely centers on running Mac OS X natively on x86 hardware or in virtualization software such as VMware Workstation.

* ACE ( software ), virtualisation software from VMware

The mid-range and enterprise ftServer systems also run VMware vSphere virtualization software.

To design, build and deploy the low consumption hardware and software infrastructures in line with its Bio Data Center principles, Bull has negotiated R & D agreements and technology partnerships with world leaders in the field including EMC, NetApp, SAP and VMware.

Oracle has integrated a RDP client, VMware View client into the Sun Ray software that can be used in Kiosk mode to start a full screen Windows session.

VMware delivered its first product, VMware Workstation, in May 1999 and entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server ( hosted ) and VMware ESX Server ( hostless ).

VMware already used Shavlik technology in its vCenter Update Manager product, and co-developed the VMware GO offering.

The VMware product line can also run different operating systems on a dual-boot system simultaneously by booting one partition natively while using the other as a guest within VMware Workstation.

* VMware ThinApp, a product by VMware with the codename VMware Project North Star

STORServer Appliance for VMware Consolidated Backup-A product by STORServer Inc. to back up VMware to TSM Servers.