[PLUG] VMware users group meeting

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>> I went to the VMware user's group meeting this afternoon (Weds 17th), 
>> John
>> Jordan went as well, hoping to learn something about VMware of the 
>> simple
>> player variety.  No chance; John was pretty patient though, I guess this
>> develops from boring classes at PSU.
>
> Keith,
>
>   Considering road conditions were still bad out here, and I have three
> irritating glitches to fix after the distribution upgrades, I decided 
> to not
> go. Looks like a wise decision.
>
>> So, unless you are managing large VMware server deployments, this user
>> group is probably not very interesting.  We should form our own 
>> little SIG
>> for VMware (and other virtualizers) running on Linux hosts, instead.
>
>   I like this idea. I have two legacy apps and one occasional app that
> require the virtual win98. If there's an option (server or player) that's
> less expensive than the workstation licenses, I'm all for it.
>
>   BTW, was the pig's lipstick full of glitter?
>
> Rich
To add a Xen twist to this, there are certain types of Intel (and AMD, I 
think) chips that can run Windows guests under Xen. The VMware marketing 
guys flag this as "Did you know you need special hardware to run Windows 
with Xen?" :) But just how special *are* these chips? If I walked into 
Fry's or CompUsa or Office Depot and just bought "a PC" that was 
manufactured recently, would the chips in it have the ability to run a 
Windows guest under Xen?


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