<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><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><span style="font-family: courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span
style="font-family: courier;">3943 Penn Ave. N. | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">who say to God, "Thy will be done," </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">and those to whom God says, "All right, </span></span><br style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-family: courier;">(612) 522-7003 | <span style="color: rgb(191, 95, 0);">then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis</span><br></span><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Nesius <nesius@gmail.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, December 17, 2010 12:47:48 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list] Running linux from a Windows VM<br></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Wayne Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wdtj@yahoo.com" target="_blank" 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;">I looked at VirtualBox, but wasn't too impressed. The install forced all my NIC to disconnect (expected, but still a nuisance). No provision to run services in the background (that I found). <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Are you talking about running virtual machines as services? Not sure what exactly you meant.... <br><br>-Rob<br></div></div><br>
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