Dennis Boone wrote:
VM's advantages would appear to be:
1. Many years of refinement.
Especially a convergence of the processor architecture with the software
ideal.
2. Less knowledge of its internals in the broad public.
This is a weakness, not a strength. It's like staying healthy by not
hearing bad news from doctors.
3. Typically more formally engineered security and operating environments
Better procedures.
The weakness of VMWare on Intel is that it is young and the processor hasn't
been remade all the way to support this yet.
The VMWare idea is sound, and will endure. But when they are ready to
build real
enterprise class machines to run scores of OS instances virtualized on Intel
24 x 7 lights out for years at a time, such Intel boxes will look and cost
very much like mainframes.
--
Jack J. Woehr # "Self-delusion is
http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!"
http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead
