Comments on: Up and mostly running again http://blog.xcski.com/2006/03/22/up-and-mostly-running-again Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Matt McLeod http://blog.xcski.com/2006/03/22/up-and-mostly-running-again#comment-1852 Matt McLeod Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:41:06 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/03/22/up-and-mostly-running-again#comment-1852 Ah, sounds dreadfully familiar -- used to have this sort of problem back at Ericsson. We all ran Solaris, because the apps our people needed only ran on that (IN design group), so even though they turned the IMAP interface to Exchange on you couldn't get any sort of support unless you replicated the problem via OWA or on a Windows box running Outlook. These days if I had to run that sort of stuff I'd do things the other way around: run Windows "natively" on the machine with a minimal setup, then Linux under VMware Server. That's been a pretty reliable setup for me so far and avoids screwing around with Windows emulation products. (Alternately, I guess VMware Server hosted on Linux with a Windows guest would also do the trick pretty well, it's just slightly harder to get going.) Ah, sounds dreadfully familiar — used to have this sort of problem back at Ericsson. We all ran Solaris, because the apps our people needed only ran on that (IN design group), so even though they turned the IMAP interface to Exchange on you couldn’t get any sort of support unless you replicated the problem via OWA or on a Windows box running Outlook.

These days if I had to run that sort of stuff I’d do things the other way around: run Windows “natively” on the machine with a minimal setup, then Linux under VMware Server. That’s been a pretty reliable setup for me so far and avoids screwing around with Windows emulation products.

(Alternately, I guess VMware Server hosted on Linux with a Windows guest would also do the trick pretty well, it’s just slightly harder to get going.)

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