29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
1:27 p.m.
At 03:00 PM 8/29/2011, William Donzelli wrote:
What about the virtual worlds? You can have a virtual machine running
the original software, and maybe even connected to an emulated server
- but it won't be much fun playing in an endless void.
"World" meaning the 3D landscape? Or the players and their stuff?
It's all in databases on servers. It's probably all in virtual
appliances today. Appliance images are probably all they are
backing-up today. No doubt some other earlier examples exist where
they quaintly put one and only OS on one physical server, but if
you have the hard drive image, it could be virtualized.
- John
How will the archivists handle these?
Virtual machine images.