Re: OT: vmware over Linux question

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Rick,
>    Cool, I'll give them a ring.
>
>    My hope was that vmware might allow a piece of hardware NOT seen by Linux
> to be accessed by the guest OS. I only want a single guest OS to talk to it,
> so there really shouldn't be any arbitration from the Linux point of view.
> Clearly different than a keyboard or a disk.

Well, yeah, but remember that each of those guest OSes think they have
the system all to themselves.  SOMEONE has to keep them from fighting
over hardware resources regardless of what those resources are.
That's the host OS's job.
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