Virtualization - Show Idea

[lturkin]

You should do a show regarding VPC 2007 vs. VMware Workstation. During the show educate the viewing audience about Virtualization and its uses. For example, I use it constantly to test upgrades for Windows and Linux. Training would be another good use for it. I have created three VMs to train myself on Exchange 2003. Lastly, since the planet has realized that green is good. This would be a way show the tools out there for usage of power consumption in regards to Virtualization for Data Centers.

[nulltrap]

btw, VMWare also has prebuilt appliances http://vmware.com/appliances/

So if you want to play with (or screw up) a linux distro, check to see if it's already built and just download it.

FWIW, some software titles, such as Microsoft Visio in bootcamp / VMWare behaves in strange ways requiring activation every time you launch the app in either BC or VMWare. It is probably detecting differences in the "machine", thus triggering the heuristics of copy violation and thus activation testing.

FWIW x2, I've activated Microsoft Visio many many times regarding the above, and no one seems to care...

[ArmpitOfDeath]

Honestly, I suspect the only real, everyday use of Virtualisation relevant for most Tekzilla viewers is for the Apple contingent to run a genuinely useful OS alongside the Fisher-Price one. And there are already tons of how-tos on that.

Apart from that, it's probably just a case of pointing people to Virtual PC if they want something free to mess around with several self-contained copies of Windows at once, or VMWare if you want to have a convenient way to mess around with various flavours of Linux and Windows at the same time as running your core OS. The enterprise benefits (let alone what you can do with Platespin, etc) will be completely over the heads of most viewers, as well as probably useless info.

I'm using a variation on that theme by running hackintosh in VM on a Windows machine so that I can crank it up as a VM for running OS X specific software which I still need to use - so that I don't have to run it on the OS X equivalent to the Windows ultraportables, my comparatively useless Air. I doubt a 'how-to' on that will go down well though, especially among the 'EULA Violation! EULA Violation!' foaming Applemaniacs.