Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:42:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: ade@lovett.com (Ade Lovett), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VMWare and friends (was: Re: GNOME: Does anyone use it?) Message-ID: <199910042342.SAA64758@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.939077590.2767.patl@asimov> from "patl@phoenix.volant.org" at "Oct 4, 1999 03:53:10 pm"
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patl@phoenix.volant.org babbled:
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:53:10 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com>
> 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)
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