[ale] more on VMware

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 13 18:47:10 EDT 1999


I tell you something - as an IT manager who has worked many legacy migration
issues, I would be very, VERY interested if VMware expands to the point where
they've got a whole laundry list of OSses - even such that it does CPU
emulation.  There are still a lot of HP3000s, HP1000s, Data Generals, DEC
VAXen, etc. in existence and their continued use is fraught with problems and
overhead costs.  If an organization does have its NT act together, why
SHOULDN'T they have the option of using the VMware concept to port over the
function of a piece of legacy junk more or less intact and in its native OS as
opposed to having to port over the software or re-write it for NT?  As VMware
exists now, I am primarily interested in Linux as a host OS, but I can forsee
being able to solve all kinds of migration/legacy problems if you can go every
which way with VMware.

- Jeff

"S. Eric Asberry" wrote:

> I'm runnning VmWare too.  I have two VM's set up, Win98 and NT 4.0.  I
> mostly just run NT.  My Win98 VM is reserved for whenever they come out
> with full support for DirectX, etc.  <grin>
>
> I've actually been pretty impressed with how well it works.  I really like
> Linux, and it's my main work environment, but it's very convenient to be
> able to run office for sharing documents with other folks, etc.  Also handy
> to be able to Hotsync my palmpilot without having to shutdown Linux and
> boot from another partition.
>
> Interestingly, they just recently came out with their beta version of the
> NT-hosted version... Now, I can understand wanting to run a lesser
> operating system (NT/98) in a window on a more stable one (Linux), but why
> would you want to go the other way around?  <grin>
>
> Eric






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