On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:04:34 -0400 Brantley Coile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}
