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OS/2 - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: ModZilla on 2010.08.05, 01:58:46

Title: trends in VM on a rail...
Post by: ModZilla on 2010.08.05, 01:58:46
don't mean to spam the mssg board here but I guess I was wrong about trends in our using multiple OSes,
viz. what we all should be using our computers for in the 21st C, this just in a couple of days ago [link included at bottom of post]..well almost, pls read the P.S. for add'l info...

'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the
year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales
of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the
same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/072910-year-of-the-virtual-desktop.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_virtualization_2010-08-02

I thought virtualization was the key... so that I could use MAC OS and then "boot in" to
a 'Twindoze' session, then to KDE and then...
back to OS2 Warp 4 Pro ver. release from IBM....my nxt trick would be hard metalization
of all my OS sessions on one box to keep hackers out-like using what is called a "sandbox" but not as an app...enjoy the article! :-\

P.S. in case you are interested in a 'sandbox' other than Chromium, here is a link to another
sandbox for safeguarding data... http://www.sandboxie.com/
Title: Re: trends in VM on a rail...
Post by: cyberspittle on 2010.08.05, 02:16:01
No mention of XenClient.
Title: Re: trends in VM on a rail...
Post by: ModZilla on 2010.08.05, 02:57:28
XenClient, yes the primo VM that is ahead of the curve on the hard metal project, perhaps
we will
wait and see which is the best way to go, as far as how prevelant the adopters become and
which product prevails, VMware may have to yield in this ring... an opt out in the fight to gain
the biggest market share of hardware virtualisation, perhaps Chrome will be the wave of the future
but I just hope the OS/2 org project will progress as an open OS standard over and above IBM's linux commitment.
.. ???

more on VM here [an olde link]...http://www.sourcefire.com/solutions/virtualization/