[desktop-discuss] Running Windoze in a VM?

[Bob Doolittle]

Rich Teer wrote:
>> Personally, I have a two-box solution.  My main
>> desktop is Solaris, but I run VMware ESX 3.0.2 on a
>> specially-config'd Ultra 40, with VMs of several
>> Linux distros and Windows and several Solaris
>> releases (I need to test with all of these).  I
>> use an RDP client to connect to Windows from a
>> window on my Solaris desktop (I use the Sun Ray
>> Windows Connector product for this, but there's
>> also the freeware rdesktop client).
>>     
> Two boxes would be a PITA for me.  I'm developing some code
> for an embedded device, and most of the tools rely on Windoze
> (though I'm beginning to assemble a decent Solaris-based
> tool set).
>   

For your final consideration pleasure, I'll point out
that some people have gone the extra mile to
create a Solaris desktop single-box solution along
the lines above, by installing a Solaris Sun Ray
Server in a VM, and connecting to it via a Sun Ray
thin client.  Supposedly performance is
acceptable, although I'm sure this depends on the
hardware platform (I don't know the platform used
for this example).

Of course if you're doing driver development of
some sort this is probably not practical.

-Bob

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