Do you want to run multiple operating systems without going through multi-booting? The most popular way to do this would be virtualization. I previously compared the free VirtualBox against the premium VMware Workstation. But VMware also offers a free version of their virtualization product, known as VMware Player. How would these two free products compare to each other? VMware Player Welcome to First Class Flyer! Tech Airlines introduces our First Class Flyer series, being published every Friday [...]

Do you use virtualization software? This type of software lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time on a single computer. For example, if your main operating system is Windows Vista, you can be running Windows 7, Ubuntu, and Windows XP at the same time inside the virtualization software given that you have enough RAM to support it. There are many virtualization software out there, however the two most well known are Sun xVM VirtualBox and VMware products. I will be comparing VirtualBox [...]