From: "Thees Peereboom" 

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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