> -----Original Message----- > From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:55 AM > To: Tal, Shachar > Cc: 'Shachar Shemesh'; Linux-IL mailing list > Subject: Re: EULA on free software? > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:48:49AM +0200, Tal, Shachar wrote: > > > Well, I believe (I never used UML, though) you can install > Linux (not using > > UML) into another set of partitions, and then use those > partitions for your > > UML instance. Am I mistaken in my understanding of UML? > > You missed a step, wherein you create a root filesystem (a > single file) > out of each of those partitions for UML to use. So you only need one > partition which you can reuse for each new installation. > > > I work for a mostly-M$ shop, which happens to have an MSDN > site license, and > > so Connectix is free to me (funny how M$'s M&As can work > for you...). A > > small (~1-man) shop can purchase such a license, just for > the MSDN Library, > > for $2K or so, and use any M$ product for a few years > before M$ requires an > > audit. During that time period, it's perfectly legal to > install a million > > instances of Connectix or Office or whatever. When the > scheduled audit > > arrives, you can choose if you want to continue using those > products (and > > upgrade the license, which will cost much more...), or just > uninstall all > > to-be-illegal software. A nice loophole we have here. > > I can't decide whether I admire MS or pity you. It certainly reminds > me of the drugs analogy, where the first few are free, and for the > rest, you pay through the nose or give up the habit. What exactly does > connectix do? is there a free software alternative?
You can do both :) Connectix does pretty much the same as VMWare, and has several nice features VMWare is lacking (to my best knowledge), such as the ability to dynamically throttle resources between guest OSen, based on foreground/background/CPU-boundness/IO-boundness etc. As Oleg correctly pointed out, Connectix was recently purchased by M$ (you can read about it on slashdot), and removed formal support of Linux. However, their product manager claimed that they will not cripple the product to not run with any specific guest OS, such as Linux. My personal experience is that Linux runs perfectly on top of Connectix. Shachar. This electronic message contains information from Verint Systems, which may be privileged and confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify us by replying to this email. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
