[Discuss] Experiences virtualizing: Linux hosted in Windows vs Windows hosted in Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

One of the beauties of virtualization is that you can use operating 
systems that may not work with current hardware. I did this 40 years ago 
with IBM's VM370. We sold out mainframe to another company in San 
Antonio, and helped them install IBM DOS (mainframe OS - PCs were not 
yet invented - but there were some decent hobby computers).



On 11/14/2015 08:46 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:52:42 -0500
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
>
>> For a number of years I have been presenting a virtualization seminar
>> for the annual virtualization deep dive day. I was able to demo a
>> Linux host with Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 as guests.
> Do you think it would be possible for me to use Windows 98 as the guest
> on my Linux host? I use Qemu.
>
> This isn't idle curiosity. I use Win98 with 20th century applications to
> view/work on a few 20th century content types like Wordperfect 5.1 and
> Micrografx Windows Draw. My headless Win98 box works fine, but I'm
> getting tired of maintaining my stuff via KVM switch, VNC etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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