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Re: Hurd on VMware ?



> On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:41:53AM -0500, Cowboy wrote:
> > 
> >  I hadn't thought about VMWare, but it has several advantages.
> 
> Just for the record, it has also the disadvantage of being
> proprietary software (read: non-free).

True, that is a disadvantage - but as long as we do not get dependent on it 
in any way - why not make use of it? For the moment it is just a matter of 
comfort: Some people buy two computers to create a network for the hurd, 
why should not others buy a second "virtual" computer for the same 
purpose?

> >  For me, the ability to make a SCSI disk appear to be an IDE disk,
> >  has temporarily solved several problems.
> 
> We would still like to solve the real problem, though ;)

As soon as we have solved this problem and many others like the hurd 
console and the X-Servers under hurd, there will be no reason to use 
VMware any more (except for people who do real work on the kernel and 
have plenty of crashes every day...)



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