[TriLUG] VMware question

[Kevin Flanagan]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:25, Greg Brown wrote:
> Hey all.  My question is does anyone use VMware to create a vitual Win2k
> machine running under Linux (in my case RH 8.0)?  I know this is what the
> software is supposed to do, but does anyone actually use it?
> 

VMWare rocks, I use it here and there, "both directions" A Windows
system at work has Red Hat running in a VM, and we have dome the other
direction as well, Red Hat system at home with Win2K in a VM. 

Microsoft actually has gone to delivering pre-betas of new OS builds as
VMs to their employees.  

I have seen a laptop running 2 instances of .NET server, created his own
AD for the purposes of a demonstration at a conference.



It's a bargain at ~$300.


Kevin

> That question aside, my other related question is what happens when/if Win2k
> gets hit by some kind of bomb while running under Linux via VMware?
> Hopefully just the directory where Win2k is located gets trashed, right?  I
> imagine this to be the case and I hope that when running under VMware the
> "virtual" Win2k thinks that the it's disk is just what is contained in the
> Linux directory where it is installed.
> 
> Greg
> 
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