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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:01:15 -0500
From: Gorka guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Xen for Windows(Was:vmware 5.0)
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On 8/28/05, Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com> 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.
>=20
> i was asking Friday here at work, what are the modivations behind VM?

Mine's are

a) not writing drivers or writing easier ones.
b) developing/debugging a kernel while reading my email on my laptop
(I dont carry
various laptops around)
c) running different OS for compatibility (e.j. Word) on my laptop
without having
to reboot my machine.

--=20
- curiosity sKilled the cat