Re: Virtualization preferences

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:51:40 -0400 
Kent Borg <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > I think the future of computing will be leaning very heavily on 
> > virtualization. 
> 
> And isn't that strange.  Isn't this an indication of major failure in 
> operating system design? 
> 
> I remember when computers were sometimes nearly naked hardware.  The 
> idea of having a real OS sounded so good, it would let multiple programs 
> run and isolate them from each other.  Time passes, and I am a Linux 
> user.  I know a fair amount about it, and it can run tons of different 
> programs at once...yet I run Linux guests on top of Linux hosts.  And 
> others do that too.