News from the world of virtualization… February 28, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : apple, virtualization , trackbackA couple of interesting recent tidbits fom the world of virtualization…
- VMWare have announced the VMWare Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, an open-to-all-comers competition (with a total of $20000USD prize money) to create the most useful ‘virtual appliance’ (read: virtual machine) using the VMWare Player and Server products. Now of course since licensing is an issue, non-free operating systems are less likely to form the basis for any of the serious contenders. The packaging of servers and workstation environments as appliances really resonates with me, as a way to shortcut much of the existing pain in provisioning new systems, especially for development teams, so I’m looking forward to what sort of VMs are produced by the community. Check out some of the existing one’s over at the VMWare Technology Network.
- Some work has been done on getting Windows XP to run on Mac Intel hardware via VMware Linux running on a Knoppix distribution installed natively to the Mac. If you must dual-boot, please do it with Linux :-). Of course, this won’t stop people from saying, ‘but I want it to run natively so I can play games’…
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If I’m running unix already (OS X), why would I dual boot to Linux?
That being said, dual-booting to XP is kind of like having a mullet for a computer, Business in the front and party in the back.