17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
7:20 p.m.
On Feb 16, 2010, at 10:19 PM, John Foust wrote:
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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?
Why would we? The major emulators (simh, hercules) are trivial to
get up and running, and the OSs are typically easy to install. If
we're going to distribute anything at all, it should be ready-made
disk images, not packaged emulators. And people already do.
Besides...What platform does VMware Workstation run on? Pretty
limiting if you ask me.
-Dave