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See the following paper (by a colleague) for more than you wanted to 
know about the development of VM.  It was, in the beginning, a skunk 
works project.

http://pucc.Princeton.EDU/~melinda/25paper.pdf

Martin


Brantley Coile wrote:
> i too am both curious as to the motivations for VM and completely open
> minded with no preconceived notions about VM. except my aversion to
> hype.  but hype is independent from the quality of an idea.
> 
> i was asking Friday here at work, what are the modivations behind VM?
> the only answers that were offered were variations on the ability to
> rent someone a machine that has root access without having as many
> machines are renters.  the earliest VM i know of is VM/CMS, from IBM,
> which is still used today.  its purpose was to provide early
> timesharing, and was also used to debug MVS.  so those are two
> motivation, although Xen can't be used for debugging OSes since it's a
> paravirtual machine.  i don't think VMware would be too good either
> because it rewrites parts of your code.  maybe that's not a problem in
> practice.
> 
> maybe Ron can give us insight into the motivations for using VM.