Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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by acobar on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 07:09 UTC

They are all good, but I still prefer to use KVM.

Yes, a 4 port Keyboard, Video, Mouse and now USB switch connected with 4 computers (3 of them inexpensive, just my old ones) by only one keyboard, mouse and monitor.

Usually I turn on just 2 of them each time in my small network, and don't have to bother about small glitches that are always there on emulators, virtual machines and api translators, and also with no speed penalty.