Re: vmware

i did so yesterday!!! i'm going to replace my NT (need it for compiling etc) with linux TODAY!!! year, that's the stuff we like!!! Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > 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 -- 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