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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sean Dennis
from: Mark Hofmann
date: 2011-02-23 10:21:16
subject: Re: Fidonet and today

> So are you now running the BBS under OS/2 in a virtual machine?
 > 

Yes.  To be exact, the physical system runs Windows 2008 R2 server
(64-bit).  I have VMWare 6.x workstation loaded on it, along with (2) VMs. 
One VM runs Windows XP for D'Bridge / BinkD, mailtossing, events, etc.  The
other VM runs the BBS nodes in DOS windows on OS/2 (E-commstation).  I'm
even using Ray Gwinn's SIO drivers for virtual comm port support - under a
VM!  Very cool that it all worked, since my BBS doesn't have native telnet
support.  

That same system runs my webserver and a few other things.  No longer do I
have the BBS running on a dedicated system with old hardware.  I can take
advantage of all the new fast hardware and future-proof it by running in
the VM environment.

- Mark

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