On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:44 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > Edward Yang wrote: > > > Sorry, I think there is some misunderstanding about virutal techonology. > > > > In a virutal hardware box, the guest OS inside it does not know where it > > is. It may be a litter or much slower than in a real hardware box, but > > the memory footprint should never been any difference. That's why many > > developers use Microsoft Virutal PC or VMWare to test there programs. > > Think about it - you don't have to boot into another OS or go to another > > computer that may be 50 meters far just to test a small problem of your > > progarm! > > > > So I think I I have FC3 installed in a real hardware box, the memory > > footprint of the JVM will be the same. > > > > > > And we can all trust Microsoft to ensure that this is how it works. > Microsoft lost a very long court case after making Windows not work > with Dr Dos. I wouldn't be surprised to find Microsoft doing > something similar. Who really knows all the code in Windows. > > Especially since Linux is the thorn in Microsoft's side right now.
