16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
7:19 p.m.
I was curious to see if anyone mentioned VMware as an emulation environment
on this list. The archives show a brief conversation about it in 2002
regarding whether it could run OS/2.
I've been using it for a client's servers for the past few months and
it is mind-blowing. Drag-and-drop, super-fast start and stop of entire
virtual servers.
One of VMware's demo appliances is a DOS environment running old games.
Linux large and small is a common OS in appliances, too.
With the free VMware Workstation version, you can easily click-click
and be running a downloaded appliance.
So why aren't we using VMware appliance images to exchange pre-made,
pre-set environments for running emulated OSes?
- John