vmware

Just a quick note here. I installed vmware (www.vmware.com) today on my Linux box and it is incredible! I can now use Office97 in Linux and it works infinitely better than Wine. The only Windows programs that do not work very well are ones that need DirectX/DirectDraw, but these tend to be video games anyway. Have a look at http://linux.lerdorf.on.ca/snap1.gif - snap7.gif for some snapshots. For some reason ksnapshot makes slightly grainy snapshots. I guess because it is dithering down from 32bpp to 8bpp. snap7.gif is especially interesting. It shows Adobe Photoshop 5.0 running side-by-side with Gimp 1.0. Another nifty thing I am able to do is run both Apache+PHP on Windows at the same time as Apache+PHP on Linux. And yes, MSVC6 runs as well so I can compile PHP on both Linux and Win98 concurrently. It is so fast that I am actually finding myself using IE4 in the virtual machine window instead of the native Linux Netscape because I find the Windows fonts more readable. And since the vm window has its own ip I can now finally play with odbc and sybase-ct and some of the other things that need both a Linux box and a Windows box at the same time. Another nifty thing is that a vm can run any OS. Virtual hosting using this thing with many vm's each running an instance of Linux would be extremely cool. In fact, a single Linux box can run at least 128 separate vm's. And each one is completely separate. That means that someone could telnet into a Linux vm, recompile his kernel and reboot and it would work. Other vm's on that machine would not be affected. In fact the other vm's could each be running a different OS. Freebsd, WinNT, BeOS, OpenBSD, BSDi, etc. All on one box. A small test here. You can browse to http://linux.lerdorf.on.ca and you will be hitting my Linux box. But, you can also bring up http://collective.lerdorf.on.ca and you will be hitting a virtual machine running Win98 and ApacheNT. Separate IP's, separate OS's, same machine. Too cool! Try it! -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net