Posted on 04/20/2005 6:16:32 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Thanks for the heads up!
I went to the MS website and ordered Visual Studio 2005, Beta 2 for FREE. They are giving away some great stuff for developers over there.
I forgot the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/
Microsoft will virtualize Linux... and vice-versa. Good for all concerned.
Okay, I am an aviation nut and not an IT guru; what exactly do they mean when they say that they shall virtualise Linux?
Linux ping.
For instance, on my laptop here, I am running Linux, but I am also running Win 2K inside a window--and all that implies. I can run Office (though I don't), games, and any other Windows-only programs I may have.
I don't think this is true. Microsoft has a history of making their products compatible just long enough to get people hooked and then introducing enough changes to force people away from their competitor onto a Microsoft version.
Java comes to mind as an example.
The way they did spreadsheets also comes to mind. They started out compatible with all competitors, but once they had majority market share they quit sharing file structures forcing the market to move to their spreadsheet or be incompatible with the rest of the world.
Okay, it is a Linux version of Virtual Basic, etc.
What software are you using to do that, and what kind of resources does it need? Any driver issues come up?
Once you create a VM, it shares the host's resources, so I allocate the max amount of RAM, hard drive space, etc. It uses bridged networking, so it looks like its own machine on my home network, and can access the Net on its own as well.
Once you install the OS, it acts exactly like that OS, with no problems that I have come across yet.
No driver issues that wouldn't normally come up with the OS in question. I can access everything on my system from my host or my guest OS. It's really cool.
The descriptions you're giving makes me think of the word "emulator", (such as Mame32 or Jnes running games). Am I right, or close?
Typical MS, always five years late to the dance but they love to make a big entrance. VMWare and others have been doing this on Linux for at least four years... What remains to be seen is will MS use its desktop dominance to push another sub par substitute on us..
An emulator fakes (i.e. creates a logical one in software) the CPU, memory subsystem, and other hardware. A virtualization system allows to, let's say it this way, share (not quite but close) your physical CPU and other trinkets to be available to both systems.
To bozack: No, it's supposed to be a way to run the Windows version of VB inside Windows concurrently with some other apps on some other system.
Ehem, sorry; the previous wasn't supposed to respond to bozac but to Army Air Corps #12.
I use VMWARE everyday myself, but I would never recommend allocating "the max amount of RAM" etc. to a virtual machine. You need that for your host, especially if you're going to run more than 2 VM's simultaneously with the host. A good example would be 2 gigs total RAM, with 1 G to host and 512 M to each VM.
As for the article, Linux is currently free for anyone to use, including Microsoft. They'll just make it another "window", like everything else.
CYGWIN is not bad, they finally have the x11 compatability.
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