Re: VMWare

["Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>]

Actually, if you want to run a "windows server" in Linux to serve up 
multiple windows systems check out the GLX and ELX(?) products.  They're
designed for serving multiple machines from 1 host.  Apparantly the test
a friend of mine is running looks rather favorable at this point.


Thus spake Brian Nelson (nelson@bignachos.com):

> dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes:
> 
> > How are the VMWare folks with support?  (quality, availability, cost) 
> > 
> > Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)?
> > For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as
> > diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with
> > windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd
> > world country.
> 
> I don't know how the VMWare people would support such a configuration,
> but I do know that VMWare has pretty hefty hardware requirements.  I
> can't imagine you'd be able to run more than a couple sessions before
> the server gets bogged down.
> 
> Win4Lin supposedly has lighter requirement, though it requires a
> kernel patch and only supports Win9x.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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> 
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