On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > Yea, that would be a good way to describe it. I develop network > applications that run on different OS. At one time I might be running a > server on Centos, Active Directory on WS2k3, and a client on XP. The AD > machine I would just bring up and run in the background unless I need to > make some user property changes, same with the server. > > Now, I just wish I could find an AIX/PowerPC and Solaris/SPARC VM system. > I still don't understand your criticism of virtual box. I use it to run Ubuntu inside a VM and have no issues with "backgrounding", etc... both within the VM and in terms of the VM playing nice with the rest of my XP environment. But I sense the issue is that I am not quite grasping a detail of your operating model. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101218/3049d977/attachment.htm