On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:44 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
Edward Yang wrote:
> Sorry, I think there is some misunderstanding about virutal techonology.
>
> In a virutal hardware box, the guest OS inside it does not know where it
> is. It may be a litter or much slower than in a real hardware box, but
> the memory footprint should never been any difference. That's why many
> developers use Microsoft Virutal PC or VMWare to test there programs.
> Think about it - you don't have to boot into another OS or go to another
> computer that may be 50 meters far just to test a small problem of your
> progarm!
>
> So I think I I have FC3 installed in a real hardware box, the memory
> footprint of the JVM will be the same.
>
>
And we can all trust Microsoft to ensure that this is how it works.
Microsoft lost a very long court case after making Windows not work
with Dr Dos. I wouldn't be surprised to find Microsoft doing
something similar. Who really knows all the code in Windows.
Especially since Linux is the thorn in Microsoft's side right now.