[TriLUG] VMware question

[Jim Ray]

How come they offer that other server flavor for more $$$ if the $300
flavor runs servers?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Flanagan [mailto:kevin at flanagannc.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:23 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] VMware question
> 
> 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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