After my last cock-up I said that I wouldn't say anything else on this list until I'd had a good sleep.
However... in no particular order:
> The Plex86 project (now deceased)
Not true: Kevin's resurrected it as a Linux hypervisor over at Sourceforge whilst the original over at Savannah is still alive due to the license decision that Kevin made. Not that both are exactly a hive of activity that is...
This is probably the closest that anyone's going to come to a VM-capable equivalent for Linux. (Note: VM provides far more than virtualisation, hence VM-capable.)
>As an offside remark, I would like to see the VM-evangelist people >realising that the VM world has a lot to share with the unwashed masses >who are completely unaware of the advantages of resource-virtualisation.
You do the VM people a disservice. The VM people have been telling the rest of the world about what VM can do for donkey's years. Don't argue with me: been there, done that, still doing it, got the t-shirt. The rest of the world...
...no, let me rephrase. I've said this before and I'll say it again: every op.sys has advantages and disadvantages - if we were all openminded enough to learn from other systems, then the computing world would be a better place. If however, people are so tied up in their own bigotries or closed perceptions or, possibly more to the point, their own lack of experience, that they don't know or don't want to listen...
And just for the record, I've used a multitude of op.sys. over the years, well into the teens, so contrary to how I normally come over on this list, (I know how I normally come over and I'm not usually as bad as I seem), I do have the experience to give a decent opinion... (yeah, I know, that's not a nice thing to say but I'm a bit cranky at the moment).
The description of VMWare as an app that has to do dirty tricks as opposed to an ops.sys. that is designed to do this from the start is pretty well the best summation. Yes, things like VMWare are a nice way to get around the limitations that, let's face it, the PC industry imposes on us, but at the end of the day, they're a kludge designed to get around a limitation. VM isn't. It's designed to do what it does from the start. No comparison.
You can all flame me about that last paragraph but to put this into perspective I would tell anyone who asked that VM is the second best operating system I've ever come across...
...and they don't make the best one anymore.
Rod
