Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
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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Yes, I use it to test cross connections between XP and W98 (SQL Server application). And it works very fast: on AMD XP 1.6+ with 512MB RAM with Windows XP installed on a Host plus W98 with 64MB RAM as first guest OS and WinXP with 192 MB RAM as second quest OS - it all works in real time with no problems at all (VirtualPC uses about 32MB RAM for itself, the rest is for emulated OS'es only).
The only problem for someone could be that it needs Windows system to run as a Host, but apart from that VMWare is way too expensive and is better in nothing, at least for me.