Re: Virtualization preferences

["Kent Borg" <user=107@nabble.blu.org>]

 Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> I think the future of computing will be leaning very heavily on 
> virtualization. 

And isn't that strange.  Isn't this an indication of major failure in 
operating system design? 

I remember when computers were sometimes nearly naked hardware.  The 
idea of having a real OS sounded so good, it would let multiple programs 
run and isolate them from each other.  Time passes, and I am a Linux 
user.  I know a fair amount about it, and it can run tons of different 
programs at once...yet I run Linux guests on top of Linux hosts.  And 
others do that too. 

How is it that the interface offered by a BIOS is more attractive than 
that offered by a real OS? 


-kb 

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