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Date:	Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:45:09 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: VMWare

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In <4047FB0F.2060804@usa.net>, on 03/04/04
at 07:58 PM, Sheridan George said:

>The question is: Will fighting the idiosyncraies of VMWare at school and
>SVISTA at home be overly stressful? I dunno; I don't know enough about
>either one to say anything.

I can't really speak for VMWare. I'm sure SVISTA will have some issues at
first, but they will get resolved assuming the developers remain viable
and I don't see why this should not be the case.

> But viruses would still be a problem.) Would there be an advantage to
>using Linux just for device driver support? Again, no say. For all I
>know Linux is as far behind the curve as is OS/2.

It really does not matter what platform you use to provide a hardware base
for WinXX, viruses will be an issue if you let the WinXX box see the
internet. This is true regardless of how the hardware base is
implemented.

> c) The ability to try new products without taking the chance that my
>production machine will be put out of commission or without the
>necessity to keep a "test box" around for such testing (which I can
>never seem to keep in the same configuration as my production machine.)

Testing is an area where a virtual setup can be useful, although the
virtual test box will by definition have a different configuration that
your production machine.

>sniffs out the number of CPUs and uses them automagically but the command
>line operations are not very different. Again, I may be way in the dark
>here. eCS multi-processor may be just as simple to use.

You won't get this support within the virtual box, but you might get some
benefits of running the virtual box on a multiprocessor system where one
processor is dedicated to servicing a single virtual machince.

In the long the biggest benefit to OS/2 users that an app like SVISTA will
provide is the ability to run OS/2 on otherwise incompatible hardware.

>Some of the above is mitigated if the SVISTA product will be solid and
>works as advertized. I would prefer to support eCS than VMWare. So,
>what to do?

There's the other issue that you really don't know if VMWare is a solution
for hosting eCS.

Regards,

Steven

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