"[OT] This label is for posts that are completely off the topic of engineering/technology."? Really? Surely at the least it should be "[TECH] About technology, Engineering other than EE" Chris On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Bob Blick wrote: > This thread moves to OT now. Change the tag to OT if you reply to any > message in this thread. > > Thanks, > > Bob > > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:23 -0300, "Gerhard Fiedler" > wrote: >> N. T. wrote: >> >> > YES NOPE9 =A0wrote: >> >> I use one MacBook laptop as a server. =A0It is on a UPS , so there is= a >> >> double battery reserve. =A0I am running VirtualBox. =A0 Inside Virtua= lBox , >> >> I run Windows XP which I use to support printers. =A0( There are more >> >> printer drivers for XP than Linux or Mac ). =A0I also run Debian Linu= x >> >> under VirtualBox ). >> >> >> >> So my server can supply whatever application I want. >> > >> > Some VirtualBox 4.0.4 limitations: >> > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html >> >> There's also VMware ESXi >> >> >> I haven't used it, but I think next time I install a system from scratch >> I give it a shot. >> >> I think it's the only free bare metal virtualizer. Differently from >> pretty much all the others, it sits directly on the hardware, and >> basically all OSes are running in a "bare metal VM". One downside is >> probably that you need all the right hardware drivers for ESXi. >> >> Gerhard >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .