Re: [OFF TOPIC] Virtualizing x86 Hardware

Bernd Markgraf (markgraf@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De)
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:32:45 +0200 (MET DST)


hi,

> Recently I stumbled upon a vendor (www.vmware.com) whose product
> supposedly virtualizes x86 hardware. They claim to support multiple
> concurrently executing instances of Linux, various flavors of Windows,
> Solaris, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc, all within a single x86 machine.
BeOS is not yet supported. but the rest should work...

> Does anyone on the list have experience with this stuff? I need a
> reality check.
i've been running two vm's with winnt4.0 and win98 on a pII/266 64mb
(slackware, kernel 2.2.2) without any problems. networking and sound work
very well. performance is as good as it gets when you run windows ;)

bernd

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Bernd Markgraf		                  Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet
markgraf@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de         Magdeburg
http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~markgraf  Germany

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