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Originally Posted by NikFu S.

While thinking about it I drew myself a little diagram to help understand.
If you can make sense of it and alter it to better represent what VMware does that would be helpful since the sites just use a lot of e-jargon without really demonstrating any actual application.

I was also under the impression this was new but you guys are all using it.

I'll take a look at your diagram when I get home tonight and do my best

As for new? Not really. Virtualization is an OLD technology; it's how mainframes did their thing in the "bad old days". It's a relatively recent thing in the Intel world though, and there are a number of technologies vying for supremacy here.

Here are some more good links for learning;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware

That'll explain concepts a lot better than some of the marketing materials you'll get from VMware