Gavin Writes:

> If you think about it, this kind of VM technology (pioneered by IBM
> mainframes and others) is the same thing that makes HP's Superdome an
> attractive platform for consolidation.  Once you have the
> ability to create
> and duplicate whole PCs at will, all sorts of things become possible.
> Probably the person who can best take advantage of VMware is
> a PC developer
> who needs to test their software under multiple OS versions
> and for whom
> being able to run them all at the same time (safely too) on
> one box is quite
> powerful.  If I want to try out something new, I can either
> use the ability
> to "undo" a session if I don't like the results, or I can
> just go to the
> native OS and duplicate one of my virtual machine's virtual
> disk files and
> boot up a copy of it.  And all of this goes on without disturbing the
> underlying OS, so I can reboot my "test" machine every hour
> if I have to
> without needing to shutdown and restart everything else that
> I have running.

And for those who maintain web sites, you can use VMware to set up a VM for
different browsers in each machine and test to see how your page pages look
in each one without the need for multiple desktops.

> Very cool.

Very, very cool.

Mark Wonsil