> Good morning! > > Remember the SunPCI cards? A whole computer on a PCI card sans the disk > subsystem which was provided by the host??? > > Well, I'm looking for the same thing but something I can drop into an > Intel machine (Dell 1800/850) and run a second OS on. I know I'm into > blade technology now but I need to put this in a tower box. > > Can anyone point me off in a direction where I might find such a > creature? Brian, All such cards have had limited capabilities and questionable compatibility in many hosts. The problem is one of real estate (or lack thereof): you simply can't cram everything from an ATX motherboard onto a PCI card. You would probably have far better luck running your guest OS in a VMware virtual machine. To get decent performance in the guest you'll need a first rate host: premium CPU, lots of RAM, and a fast drive with about 20 GB for the guest's virtual disk. VMware5 supports a wide range of x86-based guest OS's including Windows, MS-DOS, Solaris x86, NetWare, Linux, ... See http://www.vmware.com. Xen might be an alternative, but it's still developmental, is limited to Linux guests, and requires the same additional resources as VMware. --Doc Savage Fairview Hts, IL
