From: "Robert Comer" 

It sure comer in handy for things like that!  And all without putting
together a new server hardware-wise.

--
Bob Comer


"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
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> Bob,
>
> I used it, too when my mailserver crashed an died. Created a VMWare W2K
> server on my workstation, installed MDaemon, restored the backup and
> within 30 minutes the mailserver was up & running again.
>
> - Thees Peereboom
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:08:32 +0100, Robert Comer 
> wrote:
>
>>> Besides running virtual linux installs on an AS400, who else runs a real
>>> virtual server like that?
>>
>> You'd be extremely surprised, a **LOT** of people are doing it, I do it
>> on
>> my PC's in development, testing, backup, and backwards compatibility
>> scenarios.  A lot of larger companies are doing it on large PC servers
>> that
>> have been taken on the jobs of several smaller servers.  Think of it, a
>> PC
>> that can do what 20 or so of your old servers did, yet keep everything
>> isolated from each other. (server consolidation.)
>>
>> And even now, Intel just released new CPU's with hardware assists for
>> virtualization (called VT, AMD's is called Pacifica).
>>
>> I know that Microsoft is working hard on the concept, Virtual Server R2
>> just
>> went RTM and the pricing is pretty attractive.  They also have Virtual PC
>> for Windows (which is what I use mostly)
>>
>> The VMware people are also working pretty hard on the front edge of the
>> virtualization wave with GSX and ESX. Workstation has also been getting
>> better and better for the desktop
>>
>

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