From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:52:10 +0100 From: "Martin C. Atkins" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0) Message-Id: <20050831185210.1218a746@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <8ea6a210ff3a1dccd1ba45e51fe924f2@coraid.com> References: <6a65a8b751540b784b8cbff84466ad36@hera.eonet.ne.jp> <8ea6a210ff3a1dccd1ba45e51fe924f2@coraid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 82012650-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:04:34 -0400 Brantley Coile wrote: > i too am both curious as to the motivations for VM and completely open My reasons: 1) I hate mucking with partitions - too much chance of zapping something important by mistake, and they *always* end up being the wrong size, regardless of how much planning I do... With a VM, the filesystems can be in normal files, which doesn't completely avoid the problem, but removes the day-to-day need to re-partition. 2) Machines are cheap, but (desk/office/etc) space is not. Virtual machines don't take up real space! 3) 2 in another guise - I don't want to carry n>1 laptops! 4) I can move virtual machines between physical machines just by copying the filesystems. 5) Compatibility with OSs I don't want to run all the time (without rebooting) All the other things people have mentioned... Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin_ml@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}