On Wednesday 20 Aug 2008, benjamin wrote: > "Virtualization is a technique by which mutiple guest operating > system can be allowed to be run on a base operating system" > > on "a base operating system" or "on the hardware"?
On a "base (or host) operating system". VM has been there on mainframes for a long time (the Big Iron has a layer of "base" OS to host multiple instances of guest OSs). Only in the past few years, with advances in desktop CPU arch. and lower memory cost, it has come to commodity PC hardware. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
