

Run as many VMs as you wish, but make sure that there are enough hardware resources on your physical computer to support them. How to install VMware tools There’s only one thing better than having a second OS on your desktop computer: having a second OS that can exchange data with the first. You can switch between tabs in a one window of the VMware Workstation’s interface and manage each running or stopped VM. Workstation Pro (link resides outside IBM) supports multiple guest operating systems and integrates with VMwares enterprise virtualization management tools. If Your Base OS is Linux go and choose VMware for Linux Link. VMware Workstation Pro allows you to run multiple VMs simultaneously. My Base Operating System is Windows8, So I choose for VMware for Windows.

There are two options for downloading one is Windows and other for Linux. Installing VMware Workstation from given below link. An operating system (OS) running in a VM is called a guest OS. A VM is a software-based representation of a physical computer. Each virtual machine runs its own operating system (OS) and behaves like an independent computer, even though it is running on a portion of the actual underlying computer hardware. Virtualization software creates an abstraction layer over computer hardware that allows the hardware elements of a single computer - processors, memory, storage, and more - to be divided into multiple virtual computers, commonly called virtual machines (VMs). Photo by Windows on Unsplash Introduction:
