Virtualising Fedora 8

A wonderful group of software designers have released a well rounded virtualisation software.
VMware Workstation and or its player, is a great way to run whole computer environments within the Host Computer. By doing such a feat, you gain benefits of using a number of operating systems on your own computer and more.

First of all, why virtualise?
Well some reasons include improved stability, if the virtual system crashes, no problem, just restart it.
Furthermore, if you are running software that may alter your system significantly, no drama, because a sound piece of advice is to have a copy of your virtual machine as a backup. Otherwise known as a fresh install of when you first installed the OS.

In relation to fedora 8, this option is a huge plus. By using the mainstream Windows OS as a host, all system drivers and other main software run perfectly. Then as simple as activating the virtual computer to use the OS near close to exclusive use of it, just as if you booted it up originally. (I even fooled my sister in that way)

But most of all, if you are tempted to use Linux, having it in a virtual computer provides a way to use Linux more often, without restarting the PC all the time to jump in and out of OS's.

I managed to install Fedora 8, using VMware workstation. I chose the option for "Other Linux Kernel 2.6..x" and this worked fine. Even the VMware tools install within the environment.

Full resolution screen is supported, along with other commodities such as networking and CD-rom drives.

I like to Surf the Web using Firefox in the Fedora 8 Virtual machine. Probably one of the safest and most efficient ways to browse the wild jungle that is the World Wide Web.