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VMWare is free? Yes …

VMWare it is one of the best virtual machine enviroment. It work on windows and linux and can host various operating systems as guest.

You will say : I entered on vmware.com and and Vmware is not free and it cost a lot. This is true but …

There is a tool named VMWare player witch is free. What it can not do is to create a new virtual machine. But it can “play” an existing one, with all his features and where you can work with various OS, and install others.

To create a free virtual machine you have two posibilities. One is to buy from vmware.com whole package or to enter to easyvmx.com and create a new virtual machine for free witch you can play it in your free vmware player.

What os you can simulate width VMWare player: MSDOS, Windows (3.1, 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), Linux (Red Hat, Novell, Suse, ubuntu, Mandrake, Mandriva, Free BSD, Sun Solaris), Apple Darwin, etc.