From: "Geo" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:43814cb7{at}w3.nls.net...
> >no way could you do 30 each of those doing 20 sites, not
> > going to happen.
>
> I think you're selling it short.

I'm just guessing at the numbers, but I know the difference between
emulation and running flat out natural and you just aren't going to come
close. Just the added layers from network drivers alone is going to cut
your performance in half. Add to that emulated disk drives and you cut it
in half again.

I mean heck Bob, you are telling me you are going to take the engine from
this sports car, stick it in a mineature train that weighs 20x more than
the sports car, and get the same acceleration curve. Not going to happen.

> You talk to that world more than I, but I talk to the corp world and
they're
> doing it virtual more and more -- some have been doing it for a lot of
years
> already...

I have yet to see a company using a virtual machine installed OS for
anything but testing or some really rare and specialty purpose. I've seen
programmers use them because it allows them a good testing environment but
other than that...

So where do you see this being used so often and why?

Geo.

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