RTFM VMWare question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks Nathan. 
I'm actually no stranger to VMs having used VM370 back in the '70s, and I 
am a believer of VM technology. Back then we moved from Burroughs MCP to 
IBM's OS/VS1. I was able to benchmark our payoll system under VM370 in less 
time than native VS1 (and all that with some online users). But, the real 
saving grace was with some of our older Burroughts systems. On MCP, when a 
hardware resource, like a tape drive, is requested, MSP allocates and 
deallocates it to the task dynamically. On IBM, this is normally done at 
the JCL level before starting the task (or job step). We had one app that 
used 5 or 6 tapes during its run, but never more than 3 at the same time. 
On OS/VS1 were could not run this app native because we did not have enough 
tape drives. Our solution was to use VM/370, and tell VS1 it had more tape 
drives than the number of physical drives. Then, when the additional drives 
were requested, we could then assign the virtual drives to a physical 
drive. 
In any case, with a VM, the physical reality and the virtual reality may be 
quite different.   
On 22 Jul 2002 at 16:23, Nathan Meyers wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:45:37PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Assuming you license the Linux version, VMWare installs under Linux.
> You then run installations of other OSes as "guest operating systems"
> under a VMWare process. I am, BTW, a satisfied VMWare user.

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