Posted on 08/14/2007 2:58:55 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Go to VMware.com and download the free VMware Server for Windows. Install Windows 2000 or 98 or XP into a VMware virtual machine, and you can run that OS in a window.
I agree with your astute observation and comments. It IS a step in the right direction.
While a lot of us can do these things now, millions can’t. This puts greater possibilities in the hands of mainstream, everyday users. With that thought in mind, maybe we could get some really neat app’s for Linux developed, and sold, that would not only compete, but, surpass some of the written for Windows only apps. Ya’ think?
I can see Linux Distros being installed, and learned, on these machines by people who never had the nerve to try them. Heck, I’d even be tempted to yank out my old BeOS!
Bravo, Dell!
Now, will you make a great Tablet PC, and do the same with that? :)
I was wild about the VMWare IPO, but have cooled considerably to it.
VMWare is about to get chopped at the knees by a start up called Xen.
The main creator of the Xen Visor open source program started a commercial enterprise with a pretty good package available to small companies, and the next version which is in beta will cater to mid and large companies better.
more info/review:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/09/28TCxens_3.html?source=searchresult
7 years a freeper, maybe I’ll start reading all the comments before posting on of these decades....
Their own customers and OEMs gave them no end of grief, and (as I recall) they relented. The government didn't have a thing to do with it -- marketplace pressures did.
> I used that a lot too, and liked it, until I started using VMWare. Then I realized this is one of those cases where you get what you pay for.... I'd suggest VMWare if you're doing anything more than playing around.
My feelings and experience exactly.
Xen's been around for quite a while (first released publicly about 4 years ago). It's interesting, but I don't think it's a serious threat to VMware, business-wise, any more than Linux is a serious threat to Windows, business-wise. If it makes it up to "moderate annoyance-level" it will be doing well.
That's not to disparage the effort or minimize Xen's importance. Indeed, having recently upgraded my NetBSD systems to 3.1, I look forward to running Xen 3.0 on them and trying it out. But that's not the same as posing a significant threat to our use of VMware on all the main platforms.
Anyway, I'll be very surprised if the existence of Xen does anything to the VMware IPO, other than enhance it by demonstrating the broad applicability of virtualization in general.
what i don’t like about dell’s marketing
is that they send out all of these ads for small business.
see something you like?
call them and it’s not available to you without a business #.
then, they want more money for the consumer pc.
whatta scam.
> Anyway, I'll be very surprised if the existence of Xen does anything to the VMware IPO, other than enhance it by demonstrating the broad applicability of virtualization in general.
As just pointed out above, VMware's IPO just happened, and was the biggest debut since Google's three years ago.
I'd say they did okay.
You might want to double check that. I Googled soe articles on it between my inquiry and your reply, and most of them seemed to say Microsoft had reversed that decision before even announcing it.
Could be my memory is faulty, remembering as final fact what was actually a series of speculative articles.
The articles I found seemed to indicate the decision was a done deal according to Microsoft sources, just not announced to the public, but that they changed their minds before announcing the change.
I seem to remember Xen having the ability to do effectively instant migration from one physical host to another over the network without a noticeable loss of service. That's a serious enterprise feature. Does VMWare have this?
Here is their web site for Vmotion.
http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/vmotion.html
From what I've read in reviews, Microsoft's Virtual PC doesn't even come close to VMware in terms of functionality.
I can personally attest to the VMotion feature working as advertized. It's freaking amazing. We've actually done tests here where we moved from one physical server to another during the middle of a major windows upgrade, and it worked flawlessly. I'm fully impressed with it.
On a side note, I came across this. Not enough IMHO to merit it’s own thread, but I absolutely love this quote! I’m thinking about using it.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2168701,00.asp
^^^^^^^^^For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as saying, “To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.”^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Haha, that’s great. To mess it up, you just have to work on it.
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