From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 16:43:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A524E14F5F for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA64758; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199910042342.SAA64758@freeside.fc.net> Subject: VMWare and friends (was: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it?) In-Reply-To: from "patl@phoenix.volant.org" at "Oct 4, 1999 03:53:10 pm" To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:42:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: ade@lovett.com (Ade Lovett), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG patl@phoenix.volant.org babbled: > Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:53:10 -0700 (PDT) > To: Ade Lovett > On 4-Oct-99 at 14:26, Ade Lovett (ade@lovett.com) wrote: > > > Regarding stability, I've found FreeBSD GNOME to be about the same > > as running under Linux (RedHat 5.2) -- during the bigger updates, I > > tend to run two systems side by side (admittedly as virtual hosts > > under VMWare/NT). > > VMWare sounds interesting; but even that isn't enough to get me to > run NT. What I'd really like to see would be an Open Source system > that is conceptually closer to the old IBM VM/370 design. It could > use drivers and much of the kernel from *BSD, Linux, or whatever. > But instead of running on top of another OS, it should be the kernel; > and it should -not- support running programs directly, only virtual > machines. Add a mechanism to allow VM-aware OSes to communicate > with the VM and delegate certain operations (e.g. paging) to it, > and you've got an ideal system for multi-os or multiple virtual host > operations. But I digress... But it's a digression I LIKE. Are you and I the only ones on this list who salivate at such thoughts? I WANT a system like that! -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@avalanche.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message