Bill Arnold wrote:
A few days ago, the WSJ ran an article entitled "Software Firms Scramble to
Jump Into Containers"
I read it with great interest because it might relate to solving my Watson
connection problem - and then I realized it may also help VFP applications
in general.
The gist of it, what I'm seeing, is that these containers are going to
replace the use of VM as we know it today.
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Bill
Bill,
I agree with you that this looks very interesting and seems to be a
"coming" thing.
My question is whether containers can be of use for my situation.
I'm running Linux (Centos) boxes, with 8 VMs and each VM running Windows XP.
Loaded into each WinXP VM is my VFP application(s), and Logmein.
Users in various locations connect to their own personal VM via Logmein.
So, my "stack" is
Linux -> Windows XP -> VFP
It works well (even remote printing is transparent.)
The drawback, is that I've got 8 installations of Windows XP on each
Centos server.
Everything I've read about containers (Docker) is that it requires a
certain level of Linux to function...that's good.
But how would the above stack be recreated with Docker containers in the
mix???
Or am I searching for a cat in the dog pound?
Mike Copeland
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