From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 16 18:23:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869A915248 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.2/8.9.1) id DAA19771; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 03:23:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , sthaug@nethelp.no, julian@whistle.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare References: <5262.921575579@verdi.nethelp.no> <36EE5B76.3C467B7B@newsguy.com> <199903161815.KAA11214@apollo.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 17 Mar 1999 03:23:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:15:40 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > :sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > :> > The coolest thing would be to be able to run an OS under the control of > :> > another copy of itself fro single stepping etc. > :> Shades of VM/CMS. > :What do you mean by "shades"? :-) > With VM/CMS you could build virtual machines inside virtual machines inside > virtual machines, and so forth. Who says it won't work with VMWare? In fact, I'd be disappointed if it didn't - it'd mean VMWare isn't complete. Think of it in the same terms as of a general Turing machine. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message