vmware

I have the opportunity to demo a java business application (Compiere, open
source)

The vendor prefers to deliver it pre-configured as a vmware "image".
He actually 
prefers to put it on a windows box, or linux if he has to.

1. do we have a current vmware host for OS/2

2. does using vmware on the host mean I need vmware on the client, or should 
java be sufficient?

I mentioned that the vmware added a layer that might slow down the app, but he 
said there is very little impact, and using vmware makes it very easy for him to

deliver this software to his clients.

Thankfully, he is able to use java 142

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Bart

Peter Brown wrote:
> I think you need the vendor to supply a java app - or develop and supply 
> vmware for os/2 as well.

Back to Plan A I guess: Linux server running java, with or without vmware.

Thanks for the input gents.

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Bart

Bart wrote:
> I have the opportunity to demo a java business application (Compiere, 
> open source)
> 
> The vendor prefers to deliver it pre-configured as a vmware
"image". He 
> actually prefers to put it on a windows box, or linux if he has to.
> 
> 1. do we have a current vmware host for OS/2

Nope! Only windows and linux

> 
> 2. does using vmware on the host mean I need vmware on the client, or 
> should java be sufficient?

?? You use vmware on the host to virtualise a client. Within vmware it 
can be dos/windows/unix/linux but not os2/ecs.
So you install vmware and then you can install a client within vmware. 
The client does not know about the host and thinks it's alone. It is 
very handy because one can use this client to test new apps, different 
osses without interfering the host os.

> 
> I mentioned that the vmware added a layer that might slow down the app, 
> but he said there is very little impact, 

I think he is right about that. I use vmware quit some time now and did 
not find any delay's. The bottleneck is the amout of physical memory 
that is left for the host.


and using vmware makes it very
> easy for him to deliver this software to his clients.

Can be. If he makes a app in linux, he can than make a iso of linux and 
his app and distribute this. The party which is going to use his app 
only needs vmplayer to start the vm.

> 
> Thankfully, he is able to use java 142



Arthur

Hi Bart

Bart wrote:
> I have the opportunity to demo a java business application (Compiere, 
> open source)
> 
> The vendor prefers to deliver it pre-configured as a vmware
"image". He 
> actually prefers to put it on a windows box, or linux if he has to.
> 
> 1. do we have a current vmware host for OS/2
> 
> 2. does using vmware on the host mean I need vmware on the client, or 
> should java be sufficient?
> 
> I mentioned that the vmware added a layer that might slow down the app, 
> but he said there is very little impact, and using vmware makes it very 
> easy for him to deliver this software to his clients.
> 
> Thankfully, he is able to use java 142
> 



I think you need the vendor to supply a java app - or develop and supply 
vmware for os/2 as well.


Regards

Bart wrote:
> Peter Brown wrote:
>> I think you need the vendor to supply a java app - or develop and 
>> supply vmware for os/2 as well.
> 
> Back to Plan A I guess: Linux server running java, with or without vmware.
> 
> Thanks for the input gents.

New thoughts...
my vendor seems to think that a vmware image could be run on another virtual 
machine (i.e. SVISTA) Apparently he used another program (other than vmware) to

create the image. Is this possible?

If I can't simply use his image, I can still manually install Linux, java, 
compiere and oracle in a vm.

It would be nice if I could run this business app from a vm under OS/2. I would

appreciate input from the group.


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Bart