RE: [Sheflug] Re: Shef-lug digest, Vol 1 #1315 - 2 msgs

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk 
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of graham
> Sent: 03 September 2005 14:42
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: [Sheflug] Re: Shef-lug digest, Vol 1 #1315 - 2 msgs
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:01:49 +0100
> > From: Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson [at] gmail.com>
> > To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Re: VMWare offer
> > Reply-To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > > Has anyone running this group done this; if not, would they be 
> > > willing to=
> >
> > ?
> >
> >
> > Yes.  We had a complete three year session with this.  In 
> the end we 
> > gave up on the official offer and just did some things ourselves at 
> > meetings due to the fact that only about three people were 
> interested.
> >  The rest weren't. ShefLUG was responsible for being the 
> main crowd of 
> > people who were pushing VM Ware in the North of England before any 
> > other crowd even heard of it.
> >
> > If you do have an interest in this I can get hold of a copy for our 
> > next meeting on the 10th of September at Sheffield Hallam 
> University 
> > and bring it along.  You would have to turn up for the meeting tho '
> >
> I'll be there - I have managed to get to one meeting before - 
> Dinnington 2002
> - there's a photo of my kid on your webpages to prove it :)
> >
> > Have you tried Wine ?  Might be of some interest to you.
> >
> Ironically, I must have been banging my head against Wine 
> (and parallel port dongle access) about the time you were 
> pushing VMWare, which I'd never heard of...
> 
> Currently using Wine setup with wt2, but VMWare seems more 
> likely to be useable for the 3D modelling packages we use. 
> Not tried qemu yet, tho'

We've got three VMWare boxes running "commercially". Our development and
test database servers and our production web server all run under
VMWare. The first two are hosted on SuSE Linux 9.2, the latter on W2k
(all NT4 guest OS's for reasons I'd rather not go in to as they're
verging on the off-topic!).

We moved out test database server last week, but the development box has
been in that configuration for several months now and has been rock
solid. It's quite a flexible solution because I can shift files around
between NT-space and Linux-space using VMWare shared folders (I know
there are other methods, but this works in our environment).

I'm going to try and get on Saturday if family and other commitments
permit.

-- 
David
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