RFC: VMWare talk for MerriLUG Nov meeting

[Ted Roche]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Shawn K. O'Shea wrote:

> My personal thoughts far are to touch on VMware Player and Virtual
> Appliances (vmware's free "virtual machine runner" and community  
> submitted
> virtual machines), VMware Server (the free product for Linux/ 
> Windows that
> let's you create and run virtual machines) and probably demo the "I  
> need
> to run some Windows app on my Linux box" type of install, and maybe  
> show
> what VMware ESX Server looks like (their high end enterprise "run  
> dozens
> of vm's on a beefy server box" product). Wow....runon sentence.

That sounds right on the money for my interests in VMWare. I like the  
idea of using it as "TryWare" for something like SugarCRM that I can  
set up and run their demo without permanent disfiguration of my  
machines. Likewise the "sometimes I have to run Windows" issues. I'd  
also be interested in insights on where small and medium businesses  
would benefit from running a couple of virtual machines rather than  
running apps directly on the host OS, if we can think of those cases.

Looking forward to the presentation!

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com