a though...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I will be demonstrating some alternatives at the BLU meeting next month. I 
will be focusing on Win4Lin bt TreLOS. This is a virtual machine, but 
unlike VMWare, it is designed for Linux and Windows 9x. I have not yet 
installed it on my laptop so I win't be able to do anything with it at 
tonight's meeting.  Their web site is http://www.trelos.com. They do have 
evaluation copies available.
Frank Ramsay wrote:
> While rebooting the laptop I got at work for the 10th time today (installing
> software on Windows is such an adventure).  I found myself wondering if anyon
> e
> was producing a thin distribution of Linux  designed (and optimized) to act
> only as a host to VMWare.  It seems that a distribution like this, with a goo
> d
> configuration tool (both for Linux and the VMs) would be a very good thing.
> 
> Obviously this would not be something for most home users, but I think there
> might be compelling reasons to buy one really powerful system.  By way of an
> example:  If you are building (x86 based) servers your likely to be buying Du
> al
> Xenon(1) systems.  Well if you could buy 1 8-way Xenon system in place of 4
> dual Xenon systems it would probably save a considerable amount of money.  No
> t
> to mention the space savings (always an issue in the computer room) and
> stability, _if_ a server crashes you don't have to cycle the machine, only th
> e
> VM.  Of course you would start to run into things like the 4 gig memory limit
> with the 32bit architecture but I think it is an interesting concept.
> 
> I only mention it to see what other people think.
> 
> 1 - I know that VMWare only supports 1 CPU per VM right now, this is just
> speculation.
> 
> 
> 				-fjr
> 
>  -- 
> Frank J. Ramsay
> fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com
> 
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