OT: Coolest thing... SCO on 2003 server!

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Simon--er, no...it was John Esak--said:
> 
> Everyone who hates Windows, STOP reading now!

Only in exposed server environments.  :)  Otherwise it's kinda grown on
me--in the odd sort of way I use it compared to the rest of the world.

> Okay, I'm going to assume I'm only talking to people who care. :-)  Rick did
> the coolest thing for me recently. He set up virtual pc for me on my 2003

My question is this:  Is the Virtual PC card-based (like the old PC board
for Macs, and the X-Box devsys board for PC's) or sofware-only?

Assuming software-only, is it actually running the entire system, or is it
running the binaries under emulation.

Assuming it's running the entire system, how's the speed?  It's still
through some sort of emulation, so what does the performance loss "feel"
like.  I'm not one of the performance extremists that demands a picosecond
benchmark set--I just want to know if it "feels" 95%, 75%, 50%, whatever...

Given all that, can I assume it would run Linux just as easily?

> old SCO system there. I can now lose one entire machine, one keyboard, one
> source of noise and heat, one system that needs backing up every night. I
> save the space and the noise, but there are so many benefits besides. It

I collect old systems.  :)  J/K

> Just thought some of you would find this cool. Incidentally, aside from SCO,
> you could easily have a 24/7 running Linux, or Windows 98 or whatever as
> other virtual PC's. It is truly amazing.

Now the question I have is, how much access does it give you to Windows
while it runs the virtual system?  Can you minimise the Virtual PC to
systray and let it run as a service unless you otherwise need to access it,
or does it commandeer the entire system?  I wouldn't say it'd be pointless
to not be able to, as it'd be handy to just fire up linux for some things
and not have to reboot all the time.  However, if you get access to both,
how's the priority sharing feel?

Got a URL for this thing?  It does sound cool.  Tell me it'd work under
Windows 2000 Pro, not just 2003 or XP-SP2.  :)

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