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Virtual Machine

Samuel Tan
Parallels Workstation 2.2 is an OS virtualization software developed by the company Parallels. This software has 2 versions one is for Windows and the other is for Linux.
The windows version has primary OS support for the following versions:
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows 2003 Web Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows XP Professional Edition SP2
• Windows XP Home Edition SP2
• Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
• Windows 2000 Server SP4
The Linux version has primary OS support for the following versions:
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Fedora 8
• Fedora 7
• Fedora Core Linux 4 stock 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 stock 2.6.9-5
• Red Hat Linux 9 stock 2.4.20-8
• SUSE 10.3
• SUSE 10.2
• SUSE Linux 10.0 stock 2.6.13-15
• SUSE Linux 9.3 2.6.11.4-20a
• SUSE Linux 9.2 stock 2.6.8-24.11
• SUSE Linux 9.1 stock 2.6.4-52
• Mandriva 2007.1
• Mandriva Linux 10 stock 2.6.3-7
• Debian Linux 3.1 stock 2.6.8-2-386

The operating systems that the software is able to virtualize are the following:
For Windows:
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP0, SP1
• Windows XP Professional SP0, SP1, SP2
• Windows XP Home SP0, SP1, SP2
• Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
• Windows 2000 Server SP4
• Windows 2000 Advanced Sever SP4
• Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
• Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
• Windows ME
• Windows 98
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.11
• Windows 3.1
For Linux
• Ubuntu Linux 7.10, 7.04, 6.10, 6.06, 5.04
• Fedora 8, 7; Fedora Core Linux 6, 5, 4, 3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 4, 3
• Red Hat Linux 9, 8,...