VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and IT professionals who want to streamline software development, testing and deployment in their enterprise.

VMware Workstation allows users to run multiple x86-based operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and NetWare, and their applications simultaneously on a single PC in fully networked, portable virtual machines — no hard drive partitioning or rebooting required.

VMware Workstation works by creating fully isolated, secure virtual machines that encapsulate an operating system and its applications. The VMware virtualization layer maps the physical hardware resources to the virtual machine's resources, so each virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, disks, and I/O devices, and is the full equivalent of a standard x86 machine. VMware Workstation installs onto the host operating system and provides broad hardware support by inheriting device support from the host.

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows XP
• Windows 98
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows .NET Server Beta
• Windows Me
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.1
• MS-DOS 6

Versions of Linux:

• Red Hat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• Mandrake-Linux
• Caldera Open Linux

Related Links:

• You will need the evaluation serial number to use the trial.
• User manual

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Virtual Machines are a handy way to avoid having to install real software on your PV that could damage or potentially affect the performance of your system.

VMware Player can be used by anyone to run virtual machines on a Windows or Linux PC enabling you to run a virtual machine shared by a colleague or friend. This can be useful if you need to to provide customer support or simulate a particular problem among several PC's at the same time. It's therefore an extremely secure way to test or run through scenarios that perhaps normally, you'd never dare do. This player allows you to use any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disks. In addition, this means that you can use 32- and 64-bit Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 operating systems without rebooting or having to partition your hard drive. For anyone who doesn't want to lose valuable disk space to a second operating system, or jus doesn't know how to partition their drive, this is an excellent alternative.

A simple and secure way of testing software on your PC, VMware Player offers peace of mind and a straightforward way of running multiple operating systems.

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UFS Explorer is easy-to-use tool that allows you to browse your alternative filesystems and extract files from there. Now it supports user-mode read-only support for Ext2/Ext3 Linux filesystems as well as FAT fs support. It gives you a really efficient way to access your files, located on your disk partitions and disk images (VMWare, RAW) that are not accessible normally.

Key features of the program:

• Read-only access to Linux Reiser/Ext2/Ext3 filesystems
• Read-only access to BSD UFS/UFS2 filesystems
• Read-only basic access to MacOS X HFS+/HFSX and byte-swapped UFS/UFS2
• Read-only access to FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 with LFN
• Explorer-like filesystem browsing
• File search support
• Files recovery/extraction (for files larger then 16k - available after registration)
• Preserve file modification dates
• 3 file views: 'Large icons', 'Small icons' and 'Details'
• Folder/object group extraction
• Hard-disk auto-detection
• Partitions auto-detection basing on DOS/BSD/MacOS partitioning
• Supports Apple Mac OS-style hard disk partitioning
• Partitions probing: detect correct filesystem if partition label is invalid
• Smart filesystem caching
• Symlinks browsing, object properties and other utility features
• Hardware changes re-scan; opened devices management
• Files extraction from disk images! Supports VMWare 3,4,5 hard disk image files, RAW disk image files, both RAW and 'chunked' Apple MacOS disk image files (.DMG) with ZLIB compression support

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Create your own/edit existing Virtual Machine to play with VMWare Player or other compatible virtualization software. This application is designed to allow you create, edit and fine-tune Virtual Machines to play with virtualization software that have limited support for such operations (like VMWare Player). It allows you to manage virtual hardware settings, set new virtual hardware, including new virtual disks.

Do you want to transfer your real OS to virtual machine? Use 'Clone Disk' feature!

Key features:

• Customize virtual hardware for existing virtual machine
• Create new virtual machine
• Create hard disk images
• Clone your physical HardDisk to virtual disk image; you may select partitions to clone
• Virtual machines, created with MakeVM could be played with VMWare Player, as well as MakeVM can customize virtual machine, designed for VMWare virtualiztion software

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Use the intuitive wizard-driven interface of VMware Converter to convert your physical machines to virtual machines. VMware Converter quickly converts Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms. Automate and simplify physical to virtual machine conversions as well as conversions between virtual machine formats with VMware Converter.

This is what VMware has to offer:

• Quickly and reliably convert local and remote physical machines into virtual machines without any disruption or downtime
• Complete multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console and an intuitive conversion wizard
• Convert other virtual machine formats such as Microsoft Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server or backup images of physical machines such as Symantec Backup Exec LiveState Recovery or Ghost 9 to VMware virtual machines
• Clone and backup physical machines to virtual machines as part of your disaster recovery plan

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Parallels Compressor Server is a complete professional-grade, easy-to-use disk management tool that helps save storage costs, maximize hard disk resources and improves the performance of any Windows-powered Parallels, VMware and Microsoft virtual server or virtual workstation by reducing virtual hard disk size by 50% or more.

Compress any virtual server…

Compatible with virtual servers built with Parallels Server (expected late 2006), VMware Server, VMware GSX Server, Microsoft Virtual Server.

…or any virtual workstation

Compatible with virtual workstations built with Parallels Workstation 2.2, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC

Seamlessly works with Windows server and desktop editions

Parallels Compressor Server works with any version of Windows 2000, XP or 2003 Server.

Save on storage costs

Eliminate the need to buy additional external storage, or a larger internal hard drive, to accommodate growing virtual machines.

Improve virtual machine performance

By reducing hard-disk size by 50% or more and optimizing OS parameters, Parallels Compressor reduces virtual hard drive call times and speeds overall performance.

Make your virtual servers and workstations portable

Reduce virtual servers and workstations to a size that can be easily burned to a DVD or transferred to another machine via the Internet or a LAN.

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Parallels Compressor Workstation is a powerful, easy-to-use disk management tool that improves the performance of any Parallels, VMware and Microsoft virtual workstation running Windows by reducing virtual hard disk size by 50% or more.

Works with Parallels, VMware and Microsoft products

Compressor Workstation works with virtual machines built with Parallels Workstation 2.2, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMware Workstation, and Microsoft Virtual PC

Optimized for desktop versions of Windows

Parallels Compressor is specifically designed to work with desktop versions of Windows, including Windows XP Professional and Home Editions SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP1 and Windows 2000 Professional.

Save on storage costs

Parallels Compressor maximizes available hard drive resources, which helps eliminate the need to buy an external hard drive, or a larger internal hard drive, to accommodate growing virtual machines.

Improve virtual machine performance

By reducing hard-disk size by 50% or more and optimizing OS parameters, Parallels Compressor Workstation reduces virtual hard drive call times and speeds overall virtual machine operation.

Reduce virtual machines to a portable size, without compromising performance

Parallels Compressor Workstation reduces virtual workstations to a size that can be easily burned to a CD or DVD or transferred to another machine via the Internet or a LAN.

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