[ale] VMWare 2.0 rocks

[Jeff Hubbs]

Hm, I don't think I asked my question very well anyways, so let me try it
again.

What I am looking to do is run a Linux server that holds one or more NT
servers inside it via VMware.  The Linux server would normally run without
an active console login, so, I'm wondering if VMware can still run NT in a
GUI-less context.  Everything I've seen about VMware (including their own
info) talks about it in a workstation-like context, but I'm eyeing it to b
able to do things like run SQL Server or other NT-only apps under NT under
VMware under Linux set up as a proper server.

Where I work, it would be a MAJOR productivity enhancement to be able to
generate and shuffle around multiple NT servers within a single piece of
hardware.  With one hockin' fine Linux system we could really cook.

At home, on the other hand, I'd be using WMware in much more of a
workstation/workstation mode...

- Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hoffman
To: 'Robert Butera '; 'ale at ale.org '; Jeff Hubbs
Sent: 06/26/2000 8:10 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] VMWare 2.0 rocks

Hi Jeff,

I may be misunderstanding your question but it sounds like you're
wondering whether you can use VMware to run as a Windows server without
sucking up a bunch of resources rendering the MS GUI. I believe the
answer is no. VMware takes a set amount of resources you specify and
allocates it entirely to the guest OS. It is up to the guest OS to run
the services, so it must run just as if it was on its own machine.

I also agree that VMware 2.0 rocks. The folks who wrote this are some
serious code jockeys. I introduced Linux to my office and have populated
most of the servers with it. At first, my boss told me that I would have
to run NT as my workstation so that I would have full interoperability
with the rest of the office. He dropped the suggestion immediately when
he saw NT running in a window on my box. :-)

-Rob Hoffman

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at niit.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:30:20 -0400

> Can you elaborate how VMware would behave for server apps?  That is,
can it
>run Win32 apps without an active console?  
>
>- Jeff
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Butera
>To: ale at ale.org
>Sent: 06/26/2000 5:06 PM
>Subject: [ale] VMWare 2.0 rocks
>
>
>I just wanted to say that.
>
>I upgraded VMWare from 1.1 to 2.0 last month. It really hit me just now
>while editing a MS-Word document (stupid forms people require me to
fill
>out) how this version of VMWare is so incredibly more responsible to
>user
>input (mice, keyboard) than 1.X.  Well worth the $40 upgrade fee.
>
>I wish I didn't _need_ VMWare, but so much of the world out there just
>assumes that all computer users have Word and Excel.  And  StarOffice
>still has "issues" with a lot of the Word documents that I need to
edit.
>
>
>Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences	
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
>--> http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/rbutera/
>
>
>
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