[lug] [OT] archive formats

[Hugh Brown]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Daniel Webb wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 06:27:46PM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
>
> > Daniel Webb wrote:
> > [...]
> > >P.S. For those who don't know, VMWare is now giving away their basic
> > >product
> > >for free (beer, not speech).
> >
> > Which is that?  I assumed you meant VMware Workstation but it seems not.
> >  I guess you meant player?
>
> No, they changed the names of some of their products recently I think.
> I never used their products before though, I just saw a post to that effect
> somewhere.
>
> They're calling it "VMWare Server Beta":
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
>
> I've already had to reinstall once because it's time-limited.  They claim it
> will still be free for the non-beta release.  I'm just using it for testing
> compatibility, so it's not a big deal for me if they renege.  So far it seems
> to be a fine product, it does a very good job of running Windows XP in Linux.
> They must remap a the code on the fly to skip the virtualization layer where
> possible, or there's no way it could be as fast as it is.
>


The current wisdom on the net is that they are trying to ward off MS
Virtual whatever, Xen and the like.  The Server is the replacement for the
GSX product.

Hugh