Introduction

Quoting VMWare's product brief, "VMware Virtual Platform is a thin software layer that allows multiple guest operating systems
 to run concurrently on a single standard PC."

• Installed VMWare onto a Linux PC
• SCSI based
• Single processor system with 256MB RAM
• Red Hat Linux 6.0
• Installed (normally) Windows 98 onto an 8GB IDE drive.
• Configured VMWare guest os session enviroment
• Rawdisk guest
• Virtual guest
• "Tweaked" Windows 98...
• Created a second hardware profile in Windows98 (named Virtual Machine)
• removed video adapter and network card from this hardware configuration
• left original configuration alone.
• Booted Windows98 through its virtual configuration
• Used VMWare tools to install network card (SMC), and graphics adapter (generic SVGA)
• Installed Win98 apps.
• FileMaker Pro
• MSOffice97
• Other common utilities

• Full-screen mode
• Problems running on dual-proc PCs
• Problem running on some Linux distributions (Mandrake)
• Com and parallel port issues.