Virtualization (Was: Before you think of being a do-gooder...

[Aaron Vegh]

This is what has me excited about the new Intel-powered Macs. With
Parallels Workstation, I can run Linux and Windows as full-speed apps
on my Mac. I'll hopefully be picking one up before the year is out.

There is also a Windows and Linux solution.

http://www.parallels.com/

On 5/29/06, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org <phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > One example is electricity and cooling costs.  A mainframe running many
> > instances of Linux, consumes far less power than the equivalent CPU
> > power in small boxes.  There is also the CPU load of several servers not
> > peaking at the same time, to bring average load closer to peak, system
> > reliability etc.
> >
> There was a presentation on virtualization at the HLUG meeting at McMaster
> U a few weeks ago. One of the university sysadmins explained that many
> applications running under Windows occupy far less than the full resources
> of the machine, but would normally require a stand-alone hardware machine
> to execute. With virtualization, the server farm can be partitioned into
> smaller virtual machines that are a better fit to the applications. This
> has real impact on number of servers and server room requirements.
>
> I have important applications that will only run under the Windows
> operating system. (Electronic Workbench for circuit simulation and Proteus
> for circuit board layout.) I personally like the idea of having
> virtualization built in, debugged and ready to go - so I can switch
> instantly between the two operating systems.
>
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> Peter Hiscocks
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