[Discuss] Experiences virtualizing: Linux hosted in Windows vs Windows hosted in Linux

[slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt)]

So would that be a "yes"?

Thanks,

SteveT

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:06:53 -0500
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> One of the beauties of virtualization is that you can use operating 
> systems that may not work with current hardware. I did this 40 years
> ago with IBM's VM370. We sold out mainframe to another company in San 
> Antonio, and helped them install IBM DOS (mainframe OS - PCs were not 
> yet invented - but there were some decent hobby computers).
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/14/2015 08:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:52:42 -0500
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> >
> >> For a number of years I have been presenting a virtualization
> >> seminar for the annual virtualization deep dive day. I was able to
> >> demo a Linux host with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 as
> >> guests.
> > Do you think it would be possible for me to use Windows 98 as the
> > guest on my Linux host? I use Qemu.
> >
> > This isn't idle curiosity. I use Win98 with 20th century
> > applications to view/work on a few 20th century content types like
> > Wordperfect 5.1 and Micrografx Windows Draw. My headless Win98 box
> > works fine, but I'm getting tired of maintaining my stuff via KVM
> > switch, VNC etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > SteveT
> >
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