On Aug 21, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Todd Walton wrote:
Seems like a lot of overhead to me. (But isn't that the story of practical computing?)
Honestly, I like the idea of virtual appliances, especially for large/ complex software packages. I'd be really cool if, say, there was a Plone virtual appliance that I could download and fire up in VMware Player (or Server) and simply assign network settings and names to, instead of having to grind it all into place manually.
Kind of like the concept of LiveCDs, I suppose, but slightly different.As a side note, I've taken to using VMware extensively for trying out various OS LiveCD images. Actually _very_ handy.
I thought virtualization was cool when VMware first came on the scene. Now that the average new computer has processing power to spare, I really think virtualization has finally become practical.
Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
-- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
