svhb said:VMWare is a piece of software that creates a virtual pc on your current machine. You can run another operating system without shutting down your PC. The guest operating system does not know that it runs in a virtual environment.
So if you run Windows, Windows is called the host operating system. The program will create a kind of virtual harddisk (just a file on your host system), that the guest operating system can use as hard drive. The VMWare software redirects all red/write operations to a physical device to the file on your windows system. The virtualisation software takes care about all hardware that way (etherenet connections, usb devices, sound card, ...)
Virtualbox does the same, but is free to use. For VMWare, you need to pay.
I tried both, and since I like free (open source) software, VirtualBox is my choice.
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