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Re: gps support

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:57:29 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:

> ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>> No offense, but I don't have an MS license. I'm also of the opinion
>> that if you have to run MS in a virtual machine to accomplish
>> something, then you've gained very little by running Linux in the first
>> place.
> 
> Even though I prefer to do most stuff in Linux I would have to disagree
> about not getting any gain bu running MS in a virtual machine.
> 
> IMHO MS environments are better run in virtual machines than on real
> machines for the following reasons:
> 
> 1) Many commercial tools written for a MS OS seem to assume that they
> are supposed to be installed on a computer bought for the only purpose
> to run that software. With virtual hosting it is possible to setup
> multiple MS environments for such software installations.
> 
> 2) Many MS OS installations seem to degrade over time. With the
> "snapshot" feature of virtual machines like qemu it is possible to keep
> reference installations in a fresh state.
> 

Exactly, and IMHO, that's very little gain.


> regards Henrik

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        Re: gps support "Dave {Reply Address In.Sig}" <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2011-06-14 19:23 +0100
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