I cant understand what is brilliant about using vmware. vmware does all this and I just showed you that. SO all credit goes to vmware - not me :). Unfortunately its not open source although the key is emailed you you for free.
-Saugata --- peekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject line is changed. It applies to the earlier > update too. > > From there we went there (saugata's mezlab) and to > say that i was impressed > is a gross understatement. Our co-ordinator (expos) > is very talented. And > when i say very, that's an understatement too ! For > now, just take my word. > I'll tell more later. > > The relevance of this 'visit' to the BookFair2005 ? > > Saugata has a way of showing SEVERAL distros of > linux on ONE pc only. And he > showed me too ! ONLY ONE box, and it acts like > several boxes. Surely a > miraculous way to show the many things to the many > people. > > Switching to the other distro needs just two > keypresses and a mouse click in > the window of that other distro. The cursor won't > leave the current window > running the distro and so this avoids the mouse > over-runs beyond the border > of the window. The 'guest' distro can be made full > screen too. > > A very convenient way of showing/developing/using > SEVERAL distros and > several different OS'es too ! > > > This is how it is done : > > One Distro is loaded. This is the 'basic' OS. On top > of this the utility is > loaded. THEN MANY other OS'es are loaded as 'guest' > distros. And MIND YOU, > they all run at the same time in their own windows > (which can go full screen > without borders to make you forget that it is an OS > within another OS). > Caveat : the ram, hdd has to be high enough to > support each OS. These > resources are NOT shared btwn OS'es .. they are > segmented and allotted. So > no clashes. For the curious, the 'guest' OS'es run > from a flat file for that > OS with a few other files for configuration, etc > > > And this is fun, amazing : > > ONE OS can ping the ip of the OTHER OS from its > "window'ed" mode .. and the > other OS happily RESPONDS. (both must have ip's > which are not the same, > naturally) .. its as if a whole network is on ONE > cpu box. > > > Limitation : > > Obviously this will put great demands on the h/w. > More ram is needed. > Bigger, Many hdd's will be needed, etc > > Limitation Bashed : > > Some h/w is 'simulated' . Like in the above case, > the network card is > 'virtual' .. and works like a real h/w nic .. and > enables the 'network' > without 'network' to be demo'ed > > Applicatbility : > > For demo-ing soooo many things this is good > > > (will we use it ? work of geniuses is seldom > recognized. I take the honour > since there won't be any/many takers. Thank you > saugata for 'enlightening' > me. I was curious. You are serious) > > > ..piI > > (this could be a way to show many many distros in > BookFair2005) > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
