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[Fwd: Re: VMWare problem in Athena release! How many of your
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Jan 17 16:43:27 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 17 Jan 2003 16:43:22 -0500
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This just in from Terman in EECS, in response to the questions I asked.
It seems as if the scope of the problem is not as broad as I feared.
But it's possible that we should check in with Troxel.
-wdc
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From: Chris Terman <cjt@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: VMWare problem in Athena release! How many of your systems use VMWare right now?
Date: 17 Jan 2003 16:29:25 -0500
At 04:20 PM 1/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>1. How many systems will be affected here?
At the moment none of the systems I'm in the loop for will be
affected. After some back-and-forth we ended up making dual-boot
machines instead of VMWARE-based machines since neither set of
users was willing to take the performance hit on the CAD tools we
run.
You might ask Don Troxel (troxel@mit.edu) since I know he has
(had?) some VMWARE on Linux setups up in the 6.111 lab.
>2. What, from your vantage point, is the right thing to do here?
Your provision to lock in a kernel seemed liked a good stopgap.
To be honest VMWARE hasn't really caught on the department except
as a convenience tool for occasionally running Microsoft software
(eg, to perform a file format conversion).
- Chris
