VMwareIf you absolutely haveto do something under Windows (Tomcat web server)
VMwareIf you absolutely haveto do something under Windows itself but only haveone computer and it s running Linux (or vice versa, for that matter), there sVMware (www.vmware.com). This is a popular tool in technical support officeswhere people need access to many different kinds of machines to test things. It s also popular with authors, like myself, because it allows us to grab thosetricky screenshots of the boot process and installer screens. In VMware, you run a full session of another operating system (or even anextra session of the same one you re running on the main machine) withinyour desktop see Figure 19-4. If your machine is powerful enough, youcould have five different operating systems all running in their own windowson a single computer. A minus to VMWare is that it requires a bit of extra oomph in your system. Check out its requirements and then try to go as farabove them as you can. It also runs in a self-contained window. A plus, though, is that this programreally is the next best thing to buying another computer. Figure 19-3: The Trans- GamingPoint2Playinstaller. 363Chapter 19: Windows-Only Media Formats and Programs26_