From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 02:19:45 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 061E716A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:19:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B9FE43D39 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:19:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Nov 2004 02:19:43 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Alec Berryman In-Reply-To: <20041125020027.GB1907@thened.net> References: <1101342070.1100.39.camel@chaucer> <20041125011711.GA1907@thened.net> <57d710000411241726b3534ee@mail.gmail.com> <20041125020027.GB1907@thened.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1101349182.1100.46.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 24 Nov 2004 21:19:42 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 02:19:45 -0000 On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 21:00, Alec Berryman wrote: > begin quotation of pete wright on 2004-11-24 17:26:37 -0800: > > > i've had no problems running multiple copies of FreeBSD (4.x and > > 5.x) as well as openBSD as a vmware guest. > > Are you talking about VMWare Workstation or the GSX/ESX server? > The part of the presentation that seemed most interesting to me was the ESX server. This seems a lot like the early IBM VM operating system, which completely virtualises the hardware. I thought this was really clever when I first heard of it many years ago. I have often wondered what the requirements on the instruction set for a CPU are to make this possible. My organization is a 98% Microsoft shop, and I have gotten myself a reputation as the "open source nut". VMWare should make a great tool for consolidating our all-too-numerous Windows servers. Thanks for the useful comments, to everyone who replied.