Re: LPARS (was NT vs. AS/400)

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

That's a multiple boot situation -- you have to reboot to get to a different
OS.  VMware allows you to run multiple OS's at the same time without
rebooting.  The description on their website makes it sound a little like
PLIC, "VMware products are built on our patent pending MultipleWorlds
technology. This is a thin software layer that sits between Intel
architecture and the operating system, virtualizing the hardware and
managing all hardware resources."

I haven't tried it but it sounds interesting, if a little pricey ($300).
They do have a 30-day trial version.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: <jpcarr@tredegar.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:29 AM
Subject: RE: LPARS (was NT vs. AS/400)


>
> Didn't OS/2 do that about 10 years ago?  I remember booting OS/2,  Win31,
> etc.
> With Boot manager?
>
> John Carr
>
>
> Previous releases would be great for ISV's (which we are).  Instead of
> having one machine at V5R1 beta, one at V4R5, V4R1, V3R7 etc, etc.  We
> could have one machine with all of them.  And even better would be
> FUTURE releases.  That way you could test the new release before
> putting it on your production partition!
>
> Actualy, this is something that WindowsNT/2K does TODAY!  Yep.  Check
> out www.vmware.com .  On my production Windows 2000 box, I have virtual
> machines for all the Windows flavors (Including XP Beta 2).  You
> actually boot these VM's with a bios and everything.  Very Slick.
>
> Bob
>
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