Re: VMWare uses the LNX-BBC, it would seem

What did you guys think I was up to anyway?  I rewrote the the device 
detection stuff to work a lot better though and no one seemed interested 
in it when I asked before.

--Patrick.


On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> 20:19 <M0thMan> Interesting note: I saw today that VMWare's P2V
>     program uses a modified lnx-bbc to boot its server portion to
>     migrate a physical server to a virtual one
> 20:23 <@CrackMonkey> how do you know that it's a BBC?
> 20:23 <@CrackMonkey> and not some other mini-image
> 20:23 <M0thMan> Alt-F2
> 20:23 <M0thMan> it says lnx-bbc login:
> 
> 20:23 <@sneakums> oh yeah
> 20:23 <@sneakums> a colleague was asking me about modifying the bbc
>     the other day
> 20:24 <@sneakums> "vmware uses it in one of their server products",
>     was what i heard
> 
> Pretty interesting news!
> 
>