MJang wrote:
Folks,
Silly question here - I see the Virtualization option for RHEL 5
Desktop. I assume that anyone who is looking for virtualization is by
definition, configuring a server. Am I wrong?
well, I'm using virtualization on my desktop machine (VMware Workstation
right now). It's running Windows 2000 for all the software for which I
don't have a counterpart in Linux. The other virtual machines serve e.g.
for software testing purposes. Just install your software package, test
everything works as expected. If not, rollback the changes in the VM and
start over. Handy to have different flavors of operating systems just
after a fresh install.
Also some people use it as their sandbox for Internet access. Just
shutdown the machine after having surfed through the Internet and undo
all changes in the VM. Probably there are a lot more use cases out there.
Perhaps it's an effort to position Xen on RHEL 5 as an alternative to
VMware Server for power users who need access to multiple OSes on their
desktops. But that's just my guess, and I'd appreciate insight on the
real answer.
for the desktop they're probably positioning it against VMware Workstation.
Kind Regards,
Dirk
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