<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com">wdtj@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yea, that would be a good way to describe it. I develop network applications that run on different OS. At one time I might be running a server on Centos, Active Directory on WS2k3, and a client on XP. The AD machine I would just bring up and run in the background unless I need to make some user property changes, same with the server. <br>
<br>Now, I just wish I could find an AIX/PowerPC and Solaris/SPARC VM system.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I still don't understand your criticism of virtual box. I use it to run Ubuntu inside a VM and have no issues with "backgrounding", etc... both within the VM and in terms of the VM playing nice with the rest of my XP environment. But I sense the issue is that I am not quite grasping a detail of your operating model. <br>
<br>-Rob<br><br></div></div>