[OT] Virtualization (WAS: UNIX V7)

[Eric Smith]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Well, there is one feature that VM has that I've not seen in many 
> other situations.  VM can run as a guest under VM.
I asked engineers at VMware why their products won't do this, expecting 
that it would be due to some limitation in their virtualization 
technology.  I was dumbfounded when they explained that they 
deliberately prevent it in order to avoid confusing their users.  :-(

If that's the real reason, they should have a way for a sophisticated 
user to set something in a .vmx file to enable it.

Eric