[TriLUG] VMware question

David R. Matusiak dave at matusiak.org
Thu Jan 23 20:37:29 EST 2003


thanks, Kevin!  most of what i found on the site indicated support for 
Intel platforms (mostly for X86).  is there vmware for SPARC and other 
architectures?

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:54  PM, Kevin Flanagan wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 19:50, David R. Matusiak wrote:
>
> Check out VMWare's site, IIRC, the ESXserver is for larger systems 
> where
> you may want to run many VMs at the same time, displaying over the
> network to various X displays.
>
> There are places that have set up a really large Sun system that runs
> dozens of VMs for a variety of things, development, or just to have a
> bunch of virtual servers.
>
> Kevin
>
>> yeah, i was wondering the same thing.  i haven't spent time at the
>> <www.vmware.com> website since around V2.0 or so (whenever you could
>> get a free copy by using SUSE).  back then, their menu options were
>> much simpler and coherent.  now it seems they have 'low-end' 
>> Workstation
>> and then two completely similar versions of Server.
>>
>> whats up wit dat?
>> /drm
>>
>> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:43  PM, Jim Ray wrote:
>>
>>> How come they offer that other server flavor for more $$$ if the $300
>>> flavor runs servers?




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