One thing that sucks at least I guess without the proper hardware is that it's slow..... I know with Xeon's or some higher end processors you're supposed to get some improvements, but on a regular P4, it's pretty slow... There are other free virtualization options that are supposed to be better, such as Xen, and Virtuozzo, and although I believe they are strictly for Linux, they're supposed to provide minimal overhead.
Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:52 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? > > >Not quite sure what you mean by "hardware agnostic OS and > >software"...wouldn't > >each OS have to be just as aware of the hardware it's running on and the > >software > >running on it? > > > >Rick > > VMWare and Microsoft emulate hardware to the OS. So no matter what kind of > machine you're on, to the OS it's the exact same machine. So if you need > to move your server instance to a beefer server that is running VMWare or > Microsoft, then nothing will change. You wouldn't have issues with > drivers, none of your software you installed that rely on hardware will > have issues. It will just work. That's one of the beauties of > virtulization. > > > > Bob > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246574 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
