[ShadowAce]

[TChris]

Virtualization has nothing to do with Dell, per se. Everyone is doing virtualization, or rather, can, since it's a software thing.

This piece is a Dell ad masquerading as a news story.

[DB]

I purchased a new two dual core processor Dell workstation with Vista recently. I’m finding out the hard way there’s a number of important engineering software tools that don’t work with Vista... I’ve made a number of my own tools using Visual Basic and so far none of them work right with Vista. In addition, VB6 won’t install on Vista correctly...

So it’s a mess...

Having something that would simulate XP or Win2k environment would be a big help. Especially if it really operates within Vista and not a dual boot OS type arrangement.

[Red Badger]

And other companies computers cannot do this? Seems unlikely.......

[Spktyr]

Microsoft may not like this much - remember, most versions of Vista can’t be legally used in a virtualization environment because of MS’s licensing terms.

[Constantine XIII]

Bump. Welcome to the future.

[Reeses]

You can create a Linux-like environment running as an application on a Windows system by installing Cygwin. You can set up telnet access, use most Linux commands, etc.

Cygwin: don't leave /home without it.

[Chode]

VMS...

[dayglored]

Listen folks, the only reason for this move of Dell's is to counter the screaming increase in popularity of Mac hardware, running Vmware Fusion. That's why they are carefully sidestepping the question about running Mac OS X on a Dell PC -- it won't happen.

On a Mac with Fusion, you have have EVERY OS as a guest.

On a PC, you can have everything EXCEPT Mac OS X.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Mac hardware PLUS VMware Fusion is the perfect combination to have it all. Hence Dell's brilliant but utterly transparent move to counter the threat from Apple.

[shorty_harris]

I run a virtual Windows 2000 Pro installation using VirtualBox on my Dell Latitude laptop, with Mepis Linux as the host OS.

[Still Thinking]

Dell is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft's Windows and Linux software at the same time.

In other news, manufacturers developing shovels that will work on dirt, gravel, or both simultaneously!

[tubebender]

I wonder how much Dell has invested in VMware being it’s about to go public...

[JerseyHighlander]

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

[ken21]

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.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

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.