[Chicago-announce] March Uniforum Chicago meeting

[Ed Summers]

Note: this is today! 

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                 Installing & Running VMWare on Linux
                                   
                            Steven Lembark
                                   
                 Tuesday March 23rd, 2004, 7:00-9:00pm
             College of DuPage, Building SRC, Room 1450ab

Abstract
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Virtual Machines ("VM") have been around since mainframe days.  They run
an operating system on a chip that isn't there in order to do things that
the chip that *is* there cannot.  The original example was running BSD
on mainframes; today it's Windows within Linux.  This is more stable than
using emulators since Windows is somewhat more bug-compatible with itself.

VMWare can also be used for development, configuration/regression testing,
live system installations, and bastion hosts.

The talk will include a tarball installation of VMWare, configuring
the VM for installations and Linux to support it, and some examples of
handling samba issues.

Speaker Bio
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Steve Lembark is a Chicago-based Contract Architect, SysAdmin, and
Perl hacker.  He started using VMWare in order to avoid dual boots with
Windows98 and has since found all sorts of fun things to do with it.  If
anyone has questions about VMWare or wants to see any specific items
covered in the talk he can be contacted via <lembark at wrkhors.com>.

Getting There
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The next meeting of UniForum Chicago will be from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on
Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at the College of DuPage.  The address of the
meeting facility is:

        College of DuPage
        Building SRC, Rm 1450AB
        Fawell Blvd (formerly 22nd St) and Lambert
        Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599
 
Take 355 to Butterfield Rd (Rt 56).  Butterfield West to Lambert Rd.
Lambert Rd North to first right after College Road.  Park in lots 7 or 8
(aka lot P) and walk to SRC building.  Rooms 1450A&B are on the first
floor of the SRC building, and are entered through the cafeteria at the
South of the building.

All UniForum Chicago general meetings are open to the public free of charge.

For additional information contact David Young at (630) 357-5963 or visit
the UniForum Chicago web site at:
	http://www.uniforum.chi.il.us/