What about licensing? Are OS licenses based solely on physical processors and such or would you need a separate license for each instance of the OS that you have installed on the server?
John -----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:246586 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
