the lesser of two evils
VMWare was in talks with Microsoft about a potential takeover earlier this year, but an agreement was never reached. Just as well too - VMWare is probably the best server virtualisation product in town, and is very good at running quantities of Linux, BSD and Windows servers on big servers.
I know there are pro-Microsoft or even Microsoft-neutral people reading this thinking "wow - he's a raving open-source/Mac person", well, just take a look at what has happened to Connectix VirtualPC since Microsoft bought it. VirtualPC is a similar virtualisation product to VMWare but is known best as the software that lets you run Windows on a Mac.
Guess what client operating systems the new version released by MS supports? Linux? Nope. Solaris x86? Nope. FreeBSD? Nope. OpenBSD? Nope. BeOS? Nope. QNX? Nope. Windows? Why of course ;>
11:12 PM, 17 Dec 2003 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Short Link
Yes, but..
They are not supported. As such they will not be guaranteed to work in the future, and they will certainly not have native driver support which is necessary for daily usability. Having said that, the site you have linked has an impressive array of tested OS's. It's somehow comforting to know that SCO OpenServer doesn't work yet Amiga Research OS and BeOS both do :) It's a pity Minix won't boot. Well, I DO have the source right here...
by Mark Aufflick on 09/23/04
Correction
You can host on Windows, but you can run a variety of guest systems virtually.
Rather posting the full list here, I'll refer you to a url http://vpc.visualwin.com/.
Here are some (esoteric) examples
by Unregistered Visitor on 09/22/04