I guess, since I started this thread, I'll throw out another consideration...
I just found out that MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 is free. It's my understanding that two identical setups can be run with Virtual Server and it will provide clustering support for Virtual Servers. That would be of much more interest than just Virtual PC for CF production servers. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? 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:246592 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
