Thanks all for the feedback provided. (more comments below)
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:36:43PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: | Thus spake Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | > dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > > How are the VMWare folks with support? (quality, availability, cost) | > > | > > Would they look favorably on a charity group (wrt licensing/cost)? | > > For example, if I wanted to set up a network of obsolete hardware as | > > diskless X terms (with a single modern system serving them) with | > > windows running in vmware to teach underprivileged youths in a 3rd | > > world country. | > | > I don't know how the VMWare people would support such a configuration, | > but I do know that VMWare has pretty hefty hardware requirements. I | > can't imagine you'd be able to run more than a couple sessions before | > the server gets bogged down. | > | > Win4Lin supposedly has lighter requirement, though it requires a | > kernel patch and only supports Win9x. | | Actually, if you want to run a "windows server" in Linux to serve up | multiple windows systems check out the GLX and ELX(?) products. They're | designed for serving multiple machines from 1 host. Apparantly the test | a friend of mine is running looks rather favorable at this point. $3500 is a lot of money! That could buy a quite a bit of decent hardware. -D -- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein