Re: Long term database archival

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Tim Hart <tjhart(at)mac(dot)com>, "'Karl O(dot) Pinc'" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>, "'Florian G(dot) Pflug'" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, thm(at)duke(dot)edu
Subject: Re: Long term database archival
Date: 2006-07-12 18:23:06
Message-ID: 87lkqyk7hx.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> I can't even find the same hardware I bought "last year". That's one of the
> reasons why I use VMware on my laptop. It has a hardware abstraction layer that
> presents default XVGA and Soundblaster cards etc. to the guest OS. When I buy a
> new laptop, I just install VMware on the new thing, copy over the virtual
> machines and fire them up. They don't even notice that they run on entirely
> different hardware.

How does that help? You still need to get VMWare's host OS working with the
new hardware.

--
greg

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