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thinking of switching OS
lu666s:
> I prefer to run all of my OSs at the same time rather than reboot all the time.
Not mentioning that would invalidate your uptime stats. :)
voidmain:
Oh, I don't claim to have long uptimes on my desktop systems. Not with the power going out all the time. :0
lu666s:
Just kidding. :)
The 'booting' into vmware is a lot shorter than real booting and switching between OS is a matter of less than a second, that is what counts.
voidmain:
And really it's more than just switching *between* OSs. I use several of them at the same time. For instance, one of my kids might be farting around in Windows on the console, while I am in the living room on the laptop logged in to the linux side of it over the network, running X apps remotely (lot faster running the apps on the Athalon 1600 with lots of RAM and displaying them on my laptop over the network than running them directly on the old laptop), or I might be recompiling a kernel, or other open source code etc...
And it's a great testbed to have multiple servers up at the same time without having to have multiple physical machines. For instance I fired up two copies of Solaris x86 to brush up on my NIS/NIS+ knowlege and testing Linux NIS connectivity with them. Even have a copy of Win2k Server with Exchange (for connectivity testing).
One of the best parts is the ease and speed of installing the guest OS as you mention. You don't have to go searching for all those hardware drivers for Windows because VMware exposes compatible hardware. The installation of any Win* OS under VMware is much easier and faster than any native install. And you don't have to repartition your drive or change your boot loader. But the *best* part is, you never have to shut down Linux. ;)
[ February 17, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
lu666s:
Complete agreement. I was many times sorry to spend bucks on some ware, but never for VMWare.
But I think that we should leave it at that or else people would think that VMware pays us to get new users! :D
[ February 17, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]
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