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Date:      24 Nov 2004 21:19:42 -0500
From:      Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>
To:        Alec Berryman <alec@thened.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VMWare
Message-ID:  <1101349182.1100.46.camel@chaucer>
In-Reply-To: <20041125020027.GB1907@thened.net>
References:  <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net> <57d710000411241726b3534ee@mail.gmail.com> <20041125020027.GB1907@thened.net>

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On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 21:00, Alec Berryman wrote:
> begin  quotation of pete wright on 2004-11-24 17:26:37 -0800:
> 
> > i've had no problems running multiple copies of FreeBSD (4.x and
> > 5.x) as well as openBSD as a vmware guest.
> 
> Are you talking about VMWare Workstation or the GSX/ESX server?
> 

The part of the presentation that seemed most interesting to me was the
ESX server.  This seems a lot like the early IBM VM operating system,
which completely virtualises the hardware.  I thought this was really
clever when I first heard of it many years ago.  I have often wondered
what the requirements on the instruction set for a CPU are to make this
possible.

My organization is a 98% Microsoft shop, and I have gotten myself a
reputation as the "open source nut". VMWare should make a great tool for
consolidating our all-too-numerous Windows servers.

Thanks for the useful comments, to everyone who replied.



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