> > with SuSE Linux 9.2, FreeBSD 5.3, and Windows XP. (Sorry! I need the > > Windows for testing databases I write.) > > Speaking of multi-OS booting. What are you planning on using for the > bootloader? I've always been partial to LILO. I dislike grub for no good > reason. I saw some things like OSL 2000 come up on a Google search > recently and wondered what sort of Open Source projects out there would > allow me to boot say 20 OSes off one hard drive. I need to check > freshmeat.net. In the end I decided to stick with VMWare.
There's definitely something nice about a bootloader like grub which can actually understand a filesystem, partition tables, etc at runtime... While it's a pretty clear improvement over lilo... there's still lots left to improve.. :-) x86-style booting is still a major drawback though.. Until we get rid of all those crapy BIOS issues, it's all going to be just varying shades of horrible.. :-) linuxBIOS project.. woot woot! (for those running the subset of hardware it supports)... Did vmware ever come out with their little shim product? It was supposed to be a standalone piece that booted directly... and then 'hosted' whatever OSes you had configured... They gave a presentation about it to SVLUG a few years ago... then they 'raffled' off a couple 'free' licenses for vmware... talk about a presentation which missed the concept of the venue.. :) Now if they'd been passing out source code tarballs... Another annoying thing about that presentation was that every other answer to any really technical performance related question was "that relates to proprietary information which we cannot discuss....". This is why I think, over the long term, vmware will be consigned to irrelevance... somebody will figure it out... and then they'll be hosed.... > > peace, > core > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
