And do it without rebooting. With VMware Workstation, users who run Windows 2000, Windows NT or Linux can access a whole set of operating systems at the same time. With just a click of your mouse, you can switch from one operating system to another. You then power that virtual machine on with the operating system install disk in your CD-ROM or floppy drive. The VMware computer will run in a window and the operating system will start its normal install procedure.
Virtual disks are the disk partitions of virtual machines.
They are stored as a file on the file system of your host operating system. Since an entire disk partition is saved as a file, it is easy to backup, move and copy. You can even store virtual disks on a file server. VMware Express runs on Intel-based hardware, so machines with Intel and AMD CPUs can run it. Currently, there is no version for Sparc architectures.