[SGVLUG] Got fat pipes? Vmware server is FREE

[Jeremy Leader]

on 07/28/2006 03:09 PM Emerson, Tom  wrote (in part):
> http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/
> 
> Basically, these are pre-configured instances of "some application"
> that will run on "any standard x86 desktop or server" -- I'm not sure if
> that means it takes over the entire machine (like a "Live-CD") or if it
> can run under a "foreign" OS as an independent self-contained unit.

They run as independent self-contained units, they don't take over the 
entire machine.  I believe each of those "appliances" is just a VMWare 
disk image with a bunch of stuff pre-installed.

For example, on my RedHat box at work, I currently have 2 VMWare 
"players" running, with two different versions of FreeBSD.  It's very 
handy for testing stuff under different OSs, though there's a slight 
performance overhead, and of course they're all sharing the same CPU.

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Jeremy Leader
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