Whats this VMWare stuff all about?

[Cowboy Bob]

Well VM has been around for over 30 years now and I use it quite often for running multiple zOS, VSE, TPF or zLinux guest systems. Its just the desktop crowd have now appropriated its concepts. Have a look at zVM 5.3 which has just been announced, you can run thousands of zLinux guests (I know someone who has run 20,000+ zLinux images under zVM.)

There's also Xen for Linux - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/ - which runs in the same way as the VMs do on zOS, i.e. at the OS level rather than in user space.

[Mortimer Trent]

Vmware Training

Hello

Does anyone know of supplier or download/CBT type Media for VMWare training UK Based please...
Similar in style to "cbt nuggets" training CD/DVD

Oh, without me taking needing a small mortgage!



Bye the way cool forum!

[Cowboy Bob]

What the hell is so special about this Virtual Machine stuff? Flash in the pan or going to take off?

VMWare is on version 6. I was using it around 2001 to stop me having to have a gazillion PCs with different setups to test my stuff on. Do keep up old chap.