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Hello,

Today I received the following questionaire of VMware. It looks like
the OS/2 will be there in the future :

You are receiving this e-mail questionaire because you expressed an
interest in VMware support for OS/2.

We are currently working on supporting OS/2 inside a virtual machine
and
have some decisions to make.  Your feedback would be appreciated. 
There
are many motivations for supporting OS/2 inside a virtual machine
instead
of native.  These include improved device driver support, system
administration benefits, and increased security (e.g., from viruses)
and
privacy, without loss of functionality, network connectivity or file
sharing.

  1. Would you find running the OS/2 operating system inside a virtual
     machine useful?

     If you need OS/2 running native, why is this? While VMware is
     committed to x86 virtualization, with no partiality to the native
     operating system or the one running inside the virtual machine, we
are
     not planning to support OS/2 as a native operating system at this
     time.

If you have no interest in running OS/2 inside a virtual machine, feel
free
to stop here.

  2. If you were to run OS/2 inside a virtual machine, which native
     operating system would you expect to run?

       a. Linux,
       b. Windows NT, or
       c. Windows 2000

  3. What version of OS/2 Warp do you plan to run?  Would it be
acceptable
     if we required Version 4.0 with fix pack 5 or later?

  4. In a few sentences please describe how you
       a. Install OS/2 on new hardware.  Is the installation done from
a
          central server via intranet, ethernet, modem or other
mechanism?
       b. Upgrade an existing OS/2 installation.
       c. Manage your data.  Is it kept on centralized file servers or
on
          individual client machines?

  5. Which of the following VMware usage scenarios do you envision
     adopting?  We are still investigating which scenarios are feasible
     with OS/2, but your feedback will influence us.
       a. Running OS/2 on a virtual disk.
       b. Running OS/2 installed on a raw disk.  Would you boot this
          installation native? See
          http://www.vmware.com/support/rawdevices.html for what is
          possible today with Windows and Linux.

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Elizabeth Sanville                  lsanville@vmware.com
VMware, Inc.                        http://www.vmware.com
3145 Porter Drive, Bldg. F          phone: (650) 475-5216
Palo Alto, CA 94304                 fax:   (650) 475-5001


Peter Lindeman



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