RTFM VMWare question

[Nathan Meyers]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:39:47PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Thanks Nathan. 
> I'm actually no stranger to VMs having used VM370 back in the '70s, and I 
> am a believer of VM technology.

I hope my answer didn't read like an attempt at a VM tutorial :-).

As I understand it, the Intel architecture was never designed to support
VMs the way systems like VM370 did, and the VMWare folks had to be pretty
clever about making it work.

Nathan



> In any case, with a VM, the physical reality and the virtual reality may be 
> quite different.   
> On 22 Jul 2002 at 16:23, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:45:37PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Assuming you license the Linux version, VMWare installs under Linux.
> > You then run installations of other OSes as "guest operating systems"
> > under a VMWare process. I am, BTW, a satisfied VMWare user.