Billed as 'The Complete Guide to VMware Workstation', this book lives up to it's billing and more.

For those of you yet to experience the joys of VMware visit http://www.vmware.com and see what you've been missing. VMware allows you to run multiple operating systems on one physical machine and network them together. So if like me you have the requirement to install multi operating systems or just want to see what happens when you install an operating system or just an application in a certain way without having to mess up your PC then VMware is for you.

Anyway back to the book. The book begins by looking at the PC architecture to help you understand what exactly you can and can't do with VMWare. Further chapters then go on to look at your options for installing VMWare itself and then walk you through how to setup various operating systems (including Windows 9x, 2000 and XP, Linux and FreeBSD), and get them working. But the book doesn't stop there. It also walks you through installing other operating systems that aren't strictly supported by VMware but you might have a requirement to install (such as NetWare, Solaris and NetBSD).

As networking and network-related services are probably the key parts of any VMware configuration, these are given their own chapters. The book finishes with a useful Troubleshooting section. Useful hints, tips, and pointers to useful websites are included throughout.

I'm not a VMware guru but I do use the product extensively as I can have several Virtual Machines running either independently or simultaneously on one physical box which is useful when studying for Certification exams or when troubleshooting problems (you can see what happens when you make a change to a setting and if it doesn't work out you just blow away the Virtual Machine and start again).

An excellent job Brian and when I finally get into Linux I'll be buying your Linux books as well.