Re: You wanna talk about POed...

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

As  a fluke, just this weekend I was introduced to VMware because I have 
a Windows 98 installation that I just hate to give up because it has an 
integrated phone and email messaging system on it that Microsoft beta'd 
in 1997 and then never released and only runs on Win98.  VMware was able 
to host the entire physical PC in a virtual environment and it migrated 
without a hitch. Win98 is now happily residing inside a VMware partition 
on a nice, new dual core Intel box running XP Pro.  This is a home 
machine so it doesn't get a heavy workout but it at least allowed us to 
join the 21st Century. My wife can now actually get some work done in a 
relative secure computing environment.

So, VMware gets my vote on flexibility and ease of use. Like the IXS/IXA 
combinations on System i and Linux in an LPAR, it is great to create 
clean "reference" installation and then just copy the thing when you 
need to fire up a new instance. 

Give it a whirl.

Pete


Joe Pluta wrote:
> More and more it looks like I just need to sit down and get comfortable with
> VMWare.  I bought the server to do just this level of computing, so I should
> start playing.  It's also a great environment for messing around with Linux,
> especially since I can completely smoke the configuration and easily go back
> to a previous version <grin>.
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> Joe
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