Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1642
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:26 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600

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Sunday 13 April 2008
 Number  1642
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Virtualisation returns to OS/2 (eComstation) : Michael/Gail Peters" <mandgpeters at bigpond dot com>

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Date:  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:29:19 +1000
From:  "Michael/Gail Peters" <mandgpeters at bigpond dot com>
Subject:  Re:  Virtualisation returns to OS/2 (eComstation)

Ed,

   I appreciate your road map very much ... thanks for the effort.

Rgds.,

Mike Peters

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Durrant" <edurrant at durrant dot mine dot nu>
To: <os2genau at os2 dot org dot au>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:57 AM
Subject:  Virtualisation returns to OS/2 (eComstation)

-------------------inter alia --------------------------------------------

>
> Why is this relevant ? Well a cut-down version of Win XP would also be 
> ideal to use in any virtualisation engine including VBox due to it's 
> reduced resource requirements.
>
>
> We all know Virtualisation can be used to run a different Operating 
> System - Windoze, Linsux etc. on top of eComStation, also to run multiple 
> systems concurrently on one system, but consider what can be done with an 
> isolated, header less, background winXP installation on eCS.
>
> It can run as a router to VPN clients that only work on  Windoze.
> It can run as a print data converter feeding print out to Win Printers 
> (i.e generic postscript in printer specific format out).
> It can run as a scanning server for scanners without OS/2 support.
> It can run as a bittorrent engine.
> I'm sure there are many other applications for this approach.
>
> Create the configuration with the GUI turned on and then run the same 
> virtual hard disk in the background command line mode and forget about 
> it - it simply becomes another module of your system that loads when you 
> start the system. Most important - it is run in a secure container so if 
> it gets virus infected, you can close it down (no updates written) and 
> restart it from a previous snapshot.
>
> Food for thought ......
>
>
> Cheers/2
>
> Ed.

> 

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