From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 01:05:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D09B16A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:05:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAEE943D46 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:05:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@planetshwoop.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.11?) (aenid@sbcglobal.net@68.77.25.94 with plain) by smtp813.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 01:05:53 -0000 Message-ID: <41A52FEE.7040300@planetshwoop.com> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:05:50 -0600 From: Brian Sobolak User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays , chat@freebsd.org References: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: VMWare X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:05:54 -0000 Mike Jeays wrote: > way. It is easy to kill runaway applications. So would there be much > point in running VMWare with several guest copies of FreeBSD? One advantage is the ability to reduce an entire OS down to a single file. This is extremely useful when regression testing, or if you're just hosing around. If some completely mess up a configuration; no problem, just recopy the file. brian