Re: [MLUG] I'm back... and some info re: serving native-windows apps from a linux terminal

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Dave Lloyd wrote:
> Doesn't vmware have a product where you can virtualize apps on a server?
> In the past, I've talked to a co-worker who mentioned one of the neat
> things is that it could run on linux servers which you could then
> oversubscribe back to windows dumb (or smart) terms.  Oversubscription
> is sort of in name only as nobody is using 100% of the processors 100%
> of the time.  

I've been using VMware pretty heavily for several months now on a RHEL4 
host and have been very pleased with it. I was running my primary (read, 
"token") Windows machine in a VMware session for Outlook and intranet 
(IE only) access and it worked great.

Essentially, work has replaced my group's collections of 3-7 
workstations with a single box (250G hard drive and 4G of ram w/ a 3.4G 
P4)so that we can test various configurations without all the hardware 
laying around. The only complaint I've had so far is that, at 4Gb, the 
machine eats almost a full gig for the PCIe bus. With this box, I've had 
up to 5 virtual machines running without any real problems. Some churn, 
yes, but the setup works quite well.

Additionally, VMware has now released a free player application that 
will allow someone to build a virtual machine using the full version, 
and then hand it off to another person who can run it using the player. 
I've tried a couple of different setups with it, and other than the 
occasional issue with the Windows box not understanding the device 
layout, it works well also.

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