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Date:      Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:05:50 -0600
From:      Brian Sobolak <brian@planetshwoop.com>
To:        Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>, chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VMWare
Message-ID:  <41A52FEE.7040300@planetshwoop.com>
In-Reply-To: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer>
References:  <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer>

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Mike Jeays wrote:

> way.  It is easy to kill runaway applications. So would there be much
> point in running VMWare with several guest copies of FreeBSD?

One advantage is the ability to reduce an entire OS down to a single 
file.  This is extremely useful when regression testing, or if you're 
just hosing around.  If some completely mess up a configuration; no 
problem, just recopy the file.

brian




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