[OT] Virtualization (WAS: UNIX V7)

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>> These people think it's efficient to run a copy of Windows 2003 on a
>> server (which needs a couple of gig of RAM to work well) and then run
>> multiple VMs on that containing copies of Windows 2003 or other
>> flavours of Windows. They think virtualisation is new and clever and
>> it doesn't occur to them that not only is this wasteful of resources,
>> but it's a nightmare to keep all those copies patched and current.
>>
> 
> I'm curious, what OS:es and software did virtualisation before 
> VMware/XEN/Virtualbox and the like ?

VM, of course.  (And CP-67, if you want to go way back...)

Peace...  Sridhar