[desktop-discuss] Running Windoze in a VM?

[Martin Bochnig]

Bob Doolittle wrote:
> 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).
>>     

If you would still be using a SPARC as primary platform (i.e. sb2k), 
then you all could easily benefit from SunPCiIIIpro, which offers you a 
usable solution (speed).
You can even boot MartUX_x86 inside it (with a special grub floppy that 
I never uploaded so far / then netboot SPARC's local dvd-rom [special 
SunPCi-miniroot on MartUX DVD]).

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