[TriLUG] VMware question

Kevin Flanagan kevin at flanagannc.net
Thu Jan 23 22:52:32 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:37, David R. Matusiak wrote:
> thanks, Kevin!  most of what i found on the site indicated support for 
> Intel platforms (mostly for X86).  is there vmware for SPARC and other 
> architectures?

I thought that I saw SPARC based stuff, but their web site doesn't look
like they have anything in that space now.  




> 
> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:54  PM, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 19:50, David R. Matusiak wrote:
> >
> > Check out VMWare's site, IIRC, the ESXserver is for larger systems 
> > where
> > you may want to run many VMs at the same time, displaying over the
> > network to various X displays.
> >
> > There are places that have set up a really large Sun system that runs
> > dozens of VMs for a variety of things, development, or just to have a
> > bunch of virtual servers.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >> yeah, i was wondering the same thing.  i haven't spent time at the
> >> <www.vmware.com> website since around V2.0 or so (whenever you could
> >> get a free copy by using SUSE).  back then, their menu options were
> >> much simpler and coherent.  now it seems they have 'low-end' 
> >> Workstation
> >> and then two completely similar versions of Server.
> >>
> >> whats up wit dat?
> >> /drm
> >>
> >> On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:43  PM, Jim Ray wrote:
> >>
> >>> How come they offer that other server flavor for more $$$ if the $300
> >>> flavor runs servers?
> 
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