Virtualization , VMware equivalent

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Parallels Workstation is an easy-to-use, easy-on-the-pocket solution that lets you run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side on a single PC without rebooting.
How it does it: Run your favorite software at near native speeds! Workstation is optimized to take full advantage of hardware virtualization through support of Intel VT and AMD’s Security and Virtual Machine (AMD SVM) for secure, high-performance virtual machines.
- how I got this web link: from eapps control panel used HSPcompelte software who does this virtualization software
- what is it for: for Web QA engineer have a Mac and test on Mac and Widows browser with one machine instead of two machines with Parallel for Mac product below. Not only that it can have linux , mac, windows , solaris all on same machine ...
- can have auto builds deployed on virtual server for every developer change and perform automated testing. Once done developers can look for difference of test result run for a given test case and make sure bug is fixed in server environment.
Use Windows? Like Linux? Have it all on a single PC.

review 1
- review 1 says: Bottom Line: Parallels Workstation and Desktop equip Windows, Linux, and OS X with the fastest client virtualization yet seen. Parallels’ thin hypervisor layer is key, and with Intel or AMD on-CPU virtualization acceleration turned on, Desktop and Workstation really take off. CPU, disk, and network performance are exceptional and meet, and in some ways can exceed, the vendor’s claim of native speed. Parallels has created a new class of virtualization.
review 2
Windows on Map case study
virtualization white papers


Virtualization on servers:
- -- what is it for: In a company different teams test different different modules or different applications. Having one big server with ton of memory ( 20 GB ), 1,000 GB hard disk you can have this kind of software and allocate different virtual machines to each team. companies like Foursoft etc. can reduce number of machines drastically so less physical space .
- can have auto builds deployed on virtual server for every developer change and perform automated testing. Once done developers can look for difference of test result run for a given test case and make sure bug is fixed in server environment.
- big companies with 10s of teams can give self serve of these virtual servers to developers so that developers can build their dev builds and test quickly instead of waiting for IT to allocate these machines ( like GE kansas company ).



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