12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
1:37 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
That's incredibly shortsighted of them to ignore such a powerful feature.
Traditionally, that was the way that operating systems would be
developed and tested for compatibility with newer machines at IBM. The
hardware wouldn't be ready yet, so the OS people wouldn't have a machine
to use for their development work. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. It
was solved by developing a version of VM that emulates the new machine,
and running it as a guest under VM on an *older* machine.
Peace... Sridhar
Well, there is
one feature that VM has that I've not seen in many
other situations. VM can run as a guest under VM.
I asked engineers at VMware why
their products won't do this, expecting
that it would be due to some limitation in their virtualization
technology. I was dumbfounded when they explained that they
deliberately prevent it in order to avoid confusing their users. :-(
If that's the real reason, they should have a way for a sophisticated
user to set something in a .vmx file to enable it.