Michael,
I think it's quite possible some users may wish to use this "reverse" VM to
facilitate a move to Linux. The majority of end-users still feel very
comfortable with Windows and very uncomfortable with *nix based machines.
The reverse might be true sometime in the future, but definitely not yet.
Allowing a user the same security he or she has running Windows on top of
Linux (ie: as Larry Marshall pointed out when Windows blue screens he just
restarts Win4Lin - easy as pie) in a reverse situation where a Windows user
can just close and reopen a Linux session might entice many people not quite
ready to jump into Linux but are considering the idea. Hopefully this will
be just another tool now available to increase the Linux userbase.
-Adam
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Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Also, connectix's product seems merely to be another vmware. It's priced
> the same as vmware so that's what it will compete directly with. No one
> in their right mind would want to run a guest os on top of ME, anyway.
> Unless they can have some significant advantage over vmware, they may
> struggle to get people interested in this project. Of course, vmware's
> express version is only a linux-based vm, so maybe they'll release an
> express version for windows too.
>
> cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, robert w hall wrote:
>
> > fans of (especially) vmware may be interested to look by at connectix,
> > (www.connectix.com) which is apparently exciting Kevin Lawton, the
> > plex86 designer, and others on the plex86 list.
> >
> > It runs the other way round to win4lin - allows a guest OS to run on win
> > NT, win 2k or winME (that's the surprising one), but one would have
> > thought a linux host/ win9x guest can't be far away???
> >
>
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