RE: multiple os on single pc. was When is a Windows network not a Windows network

It actually keeps the state of the OS in memory. I can run W2K as my base OS
with a WinNT and a Linux VM. The important thing to stress here is that
there is no reboot involved. The guest OS's run in a window under W2K. Think
of it as LPAR for windows. (Um, maybe you should think of LPAR as vmware for
OS/400 <G>).

When we moved to W2K (several years ago now) the payroll software that we
run wouldn't work under W2K. Normally that would necessitate either a
dual-boot system or a second box, however with VMWare I would simply boot
the NT VM when I needed to access the software. As a funny aside, the
payroll software was Java based, you know the write once run anywhere
software <G>

On final place VMWare is really cool is demos and the lab. Want to test or
demo 2 Exchange servers with a client. No problem, just boot two W2K server
VMs, start exchange in each and then run the client in the host os. Don't
expect this to be fast, but it does work.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 17:32
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: multiple os on single pc. was When is a Windows network not a
Windows network


I've heard some neat things about this. Does it keep a disk copy of the
state of each OS when switching, or something like that? Are there limits on
memory and disk resources per OS? There'd certainly need to be more disk,
I'd think, and some more CPU memory to keep everything going - kinda like a
hypervisor?

At 03:59 PM 5/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>PS:  If you need very good performance out of the vm, then partition
>magic would be better.
>

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