> > Two questions -- MS bought Connectix to get VirtualPC -- from what
> > I've heard, not so much for Mac emulation of PCs, but for PC
> emulation
> > of multiple PCs (the old IBM ploy -- If somebody is going to take
> away
> > some of our business, it might as well be us!)
>
> Yes, that's the impression I have as well. There's apparently a
> pretty big
> potential market for server virtualization. The benefit to MS is that
> they
> can help their NT 4 customers keep poking along by virtualizing those
> NT 4
> services.
So, NT4 (and other older systems) are treated as legacy systems.
> > Is VirtualPC a serious competitor to VMWare ($400 seems awfully high
> > for an emulator).
>
> I haven't really used it seriously, but I'm sure it is. That's pretty
> much
> all VMware offers - various virtualization products. So, they have to
> charge
> a decent amount for it if they want to stay in business. Microsoft,
> on the
> other hand, can give it away if they like.
>
> > What do you do with VMware that you are using it more often?
>
> I use it for all sorts of things. I use it for testing older products
> - some
> stuff just doesn't run on Windows Server 2003, for example.
Understand!
> I use it for
> installing and running things I don't really want installed or run on
> my
> actual computer, such as viruses and the like.
OK.
Are there any viri that recognize that they are running under emulation
and attack out of the bounds of the VM?
> I use it for learning about
> networking stuff without actually having a network of computers to
> play
> with. For example, last week I wanted to learn how to set up the
> native
> Windows load-balancer service, but didn't want to actually use two
> machines
> to do so - well, I can do that with two concurrent VMware sessions. I
> also
> use it to run Linux.
I see the advantages of this.
In fact, I have done something similar on the Mac: VirtualPC running
WinXP and OpenLink Software's black box that presents MS-Access as a
server on the network. Then a Native CF Mac program makes SQL requests
to the MS-Access "server".
You can do the same with SQL Server.
I would not recommend this for production, but it is an easy way to get
access to a client's database in order to replicate it on a native db
(Sybase, MySQL, etc).
How much of a performance hit do you get running VMWare or vVPC on a PC
-- or another way to ask, is it practical to run a production server
box or a prodo desktop bo?
IF, so, how many can you run -- where do you hit a wall.
On the Mac you can only run one VPC VM at at time but you can switch
between them in a minute or so.
Dick
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