[ILUG] Is vmware real?

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

Quoting Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>:
> I just bought this very nice ThinkPad T20 through the list -
> it makes me realise how much bad behaviour I've been putting up with
> from my Sony Picturebook.
> The ThinkPad is running Slax, with vmware installed,
> so I thought I'd see what vmware is all about.

Pointless running virtualisation on a laptop as it's intended for network use.
Use a popular search engine.

> As far as I can see, the vmware documentation
> was written by and for aliens.
> Do normal people use vmware,

No.

> or is it just for pointy-heads?

No. It serves a usefull purpose, developpers can test multiple platforms on a
single node (OK maybe a laptop in this scenario), but the main reason clients
deploy it is deploying services.

I have customers running SQL and exchange in win2k3 under vmware esx.
Works great. Big central point of failure though (single node I'm 
talking about)

> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie

Regards
Conor.